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Kameliya Atanasova
Washington and Lee University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
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Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Ottoman Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean Countries
Languages
Bulgarian (native)
English (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
BA | 2008 | Asian Studies | Mount Holyoke College
Abstracts
Metaphysics as political commentary: Representations of political power in Ismail Hakki Bursevi’s tuhfe works The Self of Another: An Ottoman Sufi Spiritual Diary and Its Commentary Ibn ‘Abbad's Fatwa on the Prophet's Birthday: an Example of Sufi-legal Discourse in Fourteenth-century Maghreb ‘Army shaykhs’: Ottoman Sufis on the Battlefield