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Reyhan Durmaz
Brown University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
59 George Street
Providence RI 02912
United States
ABOUT
Reyhan Durmaz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. She works on late antique Christianity and early Islamic history, with a focus on Christian and Islamic saints and hagiographical traditions.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Christian Studies
7th-13th Centuries
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Anatolia
Islamic World
Yemen
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
Mediterranean Countries
Syria
Specialties
Hagiography
Syriac Studies
Eastern Christianities And Islam
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
Syriac (advanced)
Greek (elementary)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
MA | 2012 | Medieval Studies | Central European University
MA | 2010 | Anatolian Civilizations and Cultural Heritage Mana | Koc University
Abstracts
“Relate to the people what you saw on the two sheets:” The role of hagiodiegesis in the formation of Islamic notion of sanctity “This is what was related in the tash'ith”: Muslim historians’ use(s) of Syriac hagiography