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Rao Mohsin Ali Noor
Johns Hopkins University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
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Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Cultural Studies
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Ottoman Empire
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