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Yasir Yilmaz
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
IHB ÖAW
Hollandstraße 11-13
Vienna 1020
Austria
ABOUT
I am an historian of early modern Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy. My broad research interests lie at the intersection of political, diplomatic, and administrative history in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. I am especially interested in how historical and geopolitical peculiarities of the early modern Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Tsardom were incarnated in their governmental hierarchies, decision-making mechanisms, and diplomatic initiatives. In this vein, my current research focuses on a comparative structural analysis of the imperial courts in Vienna and Istanbul based on a wide array of Habsburg and Ottoman archival documents.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Islamic World
Turkey
Specialties
Early Modern Europe
Islamic World-European Diplomacy
Comparative Empires: Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
German (advanced)
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
Osmanli (advanced)
Russian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2015 | History | Purdue Univ.
MA | 2008 | History | Bilkent Univ.
BA | 2004 | Public Finance | Gazi Univ.
Abstracts
From ‘gute Nachbarrschaft und Freundschaft’ to the Second Siege of Vienna Contextualizing confessionalism: a historiographical inquiry into confessionalization paradigm’s applicability to Ottoman Sunnism The Travelogues of Damian Hugo von Virmont and Dayezade İbrahim Paşa: Habsburg-Ottoman Exchange of Embassies in the Aftermath of Passarowitz, 1720-1721 QhoD: Digital Scholarly Edition of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Sources 1500–1918. Achievements and Future Implications of a Digital Editing Project in Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic History