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Yahya Nurgat
Sabanci University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Islamic World
Specialties
Pilgrimage, Sunnism, Devotion In The Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Mecca.
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2022 | University of Cambridge
MA | 2014 | History | Queen Mary, University of London
BA | 2013 | History | Queen Mary, University of London
Abstracts
Sacred space, ritual and religious experience and the Ottoman Hajj, 1660-1760. Between the Sacred and the Mundane: Ottoman Scholars and the Practicalities of the Early Modern Hajj