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Nir Shafir
University of California, San Diego
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
History Of Science
13th-18th Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Dreams
Epistemology
17th Century Intellectual Transformations
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2008 | Center for Middle East Studies | Harvard University
BA | 2005 | Middle East Studies | UCLA
Abstracts
Verifying Sainthood: Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi's 17th Century Travelogue in Light of the Kadizadeli Movement The Virtues of the Days: Abdulghani Al-Nabulusi’s Narration of the Self through His Diaries and Letters The City of Pilgrims: Hajj and Saintly Pilgrimage in Seventeenth-Century Damascus A book on how to write a book: “instructions to authors” and the question of authorship in seventeenth-century Istanbul Nasihat and the Politics of Morality in the Early Modern Islamic World When is a travelogue not a travelogue? early modern Arabic travelogues in the Ottoman empire