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Tommaso Stefini
Sabanci University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Caddesi No:27 Tuzla
Istanbul 34956
Turkey
ABOUT
I am a social and economic historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean. My research focuses on Ottoman European/Ottoman commercial and political relations, comparative history of Islamic and European legal and economic institutions, and intercommunal relations between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. I earned my PhD from Yale in 2021 and I am currently an assistant professor of history at Sabanci University.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Banking & Finance
Foreign Relations
Islamic Law
Mediterranean Studies
Ottoman Studies
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Trade/Investment
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Balkans
Islamic World
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Turkey
Specialties
Ottoman History
Mediterranean Trade
Islamic Law And Economics
Languages
Ottoman (advanced)
Turkish (fluent)
Italian (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Latin (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Arabic (elementary)
Bosnian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2021 | History | Yale University
MA | 2013 | History | Bogazici University
BA | 2009 | Near Eastern Studies | Ca\'Foscari University
Abstracts
Ottoman merchants in dispute with the Republic of Venice in the early modern era: toward a reappraisal of the bilateral nature of the Capitulations An Ottoman institution or part of a Mediterranean-wide tradition of charters for foreign merchants? The Ottoman capitulations in a comparative perspective (16th-century) Seeking Justice at the “Threshold of Felicity:” Venetian merchants before the Ottoman Imperial Council (divan-ı hümayun)