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Joshua White
University of Virginia
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia P.O. Box 400180
Charlottesville VA 22904-4180
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Specialties
Ottoman Social, Legal, And Diplomatic History
Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean
Piracy And Captivity
Languages
Ottoman (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | University of Michigan
MA | 2007 | History | University of Michigan
BA | 2004 | History | Washington University in St. Louis
Abstracts
Frigates and Fetvas: Piracy, Slavery, and Early Modern Ottoman Islamic Law at Sea Fatwas and the Birth of Early Modern Ottoman Maritime Law Legitimating Ottoman Inter-State Law in Murky Waters: The Role of the ?eyhülislam Subjecthood and Illegal Human Trafficking in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean: “Slave Laundering” Networks between the Balkans and North Africa The Kadi of Malta: Piracy, Captivity, and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean Corsairs or Rebels? North Africa, Istanbul, and the Legality of Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean