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Rao Mohsin Ali Noor
Johns Hopkins University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Cultural Studies
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
India
Pakistan
Specialties
Ottoman Cultural History
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Urdu (native)
Persian (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2022 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
MA (Hons) | 2016 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | The University of Chicago
BA | 2014 | SHSSL | Lahore University of Management Sciences
Abstracts
The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: Spectacle, Performance, and Messianism at the Ottoman Circumcision Festival of 1582