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Philip Bockholt
WWU Münster
Occupation
Assistant Professor
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ABOUT
I am research associate at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University. I received my PhD in Islamic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin in 2018 after studying History and Islamic Studies in Germany (Bochum, Münster, and Berlin) and the Middle East (Jerusalem, Cairo, Tehran, and Istanbul). In my PhD thesis, I analyse the historiography in Iran of early Safavid times (16th century), and provide the analysis of a major historiographical work of that period, Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar. A number of research fellowships led me to Saint Petersburg, Madrid, and Jerusalem. Currently, I am working on a project on translations from Arabic and Persian into Ottoman Turkish.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Iranian Studies
7th-13th Centuries
13th-18th Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
Translation
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
All Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean Countries
Turkey
Egypt
Specialties
Islamic History In The Premodern Period
Safavid History
Translation
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Islamic Studies | Freie Universität Berlin
MA | 2013 | Islamic Studies | Freie Universität Berlin
Abstracts
Scholarly Interest or Enemy Studies? Ottoman Turkish Translations of Arabic and Persian Chronicles in the 16th to 18th Centuries