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Selim Karlitekin
Columbia University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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ABOUT
Selim studied Sociology and Philosophy at Bogazici University (B.A. 2010). He started a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. In Fall 2012, he dropped out to start again his studies at Columbia University's MESAAS program. He is currently writing his thesis on the Caliphal Sovereignty and its international legal history.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Balkan Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
Islamic Law
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Turkey
Specialties
Caliphate Movement From Ottoman Empire To India
Languages
Turkish (native)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Urdu (advanced)
Education
MPhil | 2015 | MESAAS | Columbia University
BA | 2010 | Sociology, Philosophy | Bogazici University
Abstracts
This is Not a Refugee: Muhajir as a (Ruined) Form of Life Detoxing Our Souls from the West: Turkish Theology and the Invention of a Psyche for Homo Islamicus Unjamming the Ummah: Ottomans Travelling to India in the long 19th Century Tanzimat and the Sworn Sovereign: Oath, Subjection and Authority after the ‘Greek Interregnum’ (1821-1839)