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Helen Pfeifer
University of Cambridge
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Christ's College
St Andrew's St
Cambridge CB2 3BU
United Kingdom
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Arab Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Ethnic Groups
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Migration
Sociability
Ethnicity And Difference
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
English (native)
German (native)
Italian (fluent)
French (fluent)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2014 | History | Princeton University
MA | 2010 | History | Princeton University
BA | 2006 | History, Comparative Literature | Washington University in St. Louis
Abstracts
Meet Me in the Majlis: Sociability and Ethnicity in Sixteenth-Century Damascus How To Win Friends and Influence People: Prescribing Etiquette in Damascus Majalis Ottoman Biographical Dictionaries: Roots and Routes Putting the Sunna Back into Ottoman Sunnitization