HAKAN T. KARATEKE

karateke [at] fas.harvard.edu

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Mailing address:
Harvard University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138

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EDUCATION and DEGREES

• Habilitation in Ottoman and Turkish Studies
  University of Vienna (2007)
• Dr. Phil. in Ottoman and Turkish Studies
  University of Bamberg, Germany (February 1998)
  Minor fields: Iranian studies, Islamic studies
  Honors: summa cum laude (oral), magna cum laude (dissertation)
• Doctoral Studies at the University of Vienna
  Institute of Oriental Studies. (1993-1994)
• B.A. in Ottoman and Turkish Language and Literature
  University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul (1993)
  Honors: First Degree Honors

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• 2007--
  Harvard University. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  Senior Preceptor in Ottoman and Modern Turkish
  
• 2004--
  Harvard University. Extension School
  Turkish Instructor
  
• 2002--
  Primary Faculty at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
  
• 2002-2007
  Harvard University. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  Preceptor in Modern Turkish Language
  
• 2001-2002
  Eastern Mediterranean University. Department of Turkish Language and Literature
  Assistant Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Literature
  
• 1998-2001
  Free University of Berlin. Institute of Turkish Studies
  Lecturer
  
• 1999-2000
  Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
  Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam. Postdoctoral Fellow
  
• 1999, 2004
  Harvard University. Intensive Ottoman Summer School in Turkey
  Instructor
  
• 1994-1997
  Graduiertenkolleg für gegenwartsbezogene Orientforschung der Universitäten Erlangen-Nürnberg und Bamberg
  Doctoral Fellow
  

PUBLICATIONS

Books (authored and edited)

• An Ottoman Protocol Register, containing ceremonies between 1736 and 1808: BEO 350 from the Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives, Istanbul. Edited with annotated indices and introduction. Istanbul - London: Royal Asiatic Society, expected 2007.
• Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power. Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005.
• Long Live the Sultan! Ottoman Ceremonies in the 19th Century. Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, 2004 [in Turkish].
• Traktat über die Derwischmützen (Risale-i taciyye) des Müstaqim–zade Süleyman Sa’deddin (st. 1788). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001. 298 pp. [co-authered with H. Anetshofer].
• The Fountains of Istanbul (1703-30). Istanbul: Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediyesi Yayinlari, 1995. 313 pp. [co-authered with H. Aynur; in Turkish].
• ‘The Poets of Scutari (Albania)’ and Other Works by Ali Emiri. Istanbul: Enderun, 1995. 212 pp. [in Turkish].

Books in preperation

• Ottoman Turkish: The Social History of a Language.
• Ottoman Reader: Texts from 1650 to 1922. An annotated reader along with translations of texts into English.

Articles

• “Turkish Historiography: 1800-1945.” Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume 4 (with Cemal Kafadar; Forthcoming)
• “Ottoman Treatises on Headgears.” (Forthcoming)
• “The Inauguration Ceremonies of the First Ottoman Parliament.” Dolmabahçe Palace, 150 Years Old. (Forthcoming)
• “A Late-18th-century Ottoman Reform Tract: Nihali’s The Mirror of the State,” (Forthcoming)
• “Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts and Documents at Harvard’s Houghton Library,” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 7 (2006), pp. 172-213.
• “Controversies about Sufi Garments in the Ottoman Empire,” El Sufismo y las normas del Islam. Edited by Alfonso Carmona. Murcia, 2006. Pp.  343-349 [Same article in Spanish: “Controversias en el Imperio Otomano acera de la indumentaria Sufi,” idem, pp. 121-128.].
• “Legitimizing the Ottoman Sultanate: A Framework for Historical Analysis,” in: Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power. Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski. Leiden, 2005. Pp. 13-52.
• “Opium for the Subjects? Religiosity as a Legitimizing Factor for the Ottoman Sultan,” in: Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power. Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski. Leiden, 2005. Pp. 111-129.
• “Who is the Next Ottoman Sultan? Attempts to Change the Rule of Succession During the Nineteenth Century.” Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh. Edited by Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs. London – New York, 2005. Pp. 37-53.
• “Einige Bemerkungen zu den osmanischen Insignia Imperialia—insbesondere des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Scripta Ottomanica et Res Altaicae: Festschrift für Barbara Kellner-Heinkele zu ihrem 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden, 2002. Pp. 195-208.
• “Interpreting Monuments: Charitable Buildings, Monuments, and the Construction of Collective Memory in the Ottoman Empire.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (2001): 183-199, 11 plates.
• “On the concept of ‘ancient custom’ (adet-i kadime) in the Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Turkish Studies 23 (1999): 117-133 [in Turkish].
• “The Office of Court Secretary during the Period of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909),” Tarih ve Toplum 169 (January 1998): 50-54 [in Turkish].
• Translation of the booklet Studien zum Armenisch-Türkischen, by Friedrich von Kraelitz-Greifenhorst, (Vienna: 1912) into Turkish: “Ermeni Harfleriyle Türkçe Hakk?nda Ara?t?rmalar”. Kebikeç 4 (1996): 13-33.
• “On the Counterfeit Engraving of Sultan Abdülhamid II and the German Emperor Wilhelm II from 1898,” Toplumsal Tarih (April 1996): 34-35 [in Turkish].

Book Reviews, Encyclopaedia Entries, etc.

• “Ottoman Royal Ceremonies (Post-Tanzimat period).” Le Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman (Forthcoming)
• Art. “Ahmed III,” “Ali Emiri,” “Ayvalik,” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition. (Forthcoming)
• “Osmanli Ansiklopedisi.” Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Project. Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University in the United Kingdom (Forthcoming)
• Marlene Kurz. Das sicill aus Skopje. Wiesbaden, 2003. International Journal of Middle East Studies. (Forthcoming)
• Sevki Nezihi Aykut (ed.). Istanbul Mahkemesi 121 Numarali Ser’iyye Sicili. Tarih: 1231-1232/1816-1817. Istanbul, 2006. International Journal of Middle East Studies.(Forthcoming)
• Michael Ursinus, Grievance Administration (sikayet) in an Ottoman Province: The Kaymakam Of Rumelia's 'Record Book Of Complaints' of 1781-1783. Routledge, 2005. Journal of the American Oriental Society. (Forthcoming)
• Toby E. Huff, Wolfgang Schluchter (eds.). Max Weber and Islam. New Brunswick - London, 1999. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2001): 66-67.

Lectures and Conference Papers

• “The Traveling Sultan: Establishing the Motives for the Ottoman Sultans’ Travels.” Tropics of Travel: Departures. To take place in Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy; 13-17 December 2007.
• “The Ideal of the Ottoman Sultan in the Nineteenth Century.” Rule and Conflict: Representation and Crisis: Multiethnic Empires since the 19th Century. Freiburg im Breisgau, 4-6 October 2007.
• “How Distant is Gurbet?: Refik Halit’s Represenation of the Other in Exile Stories [Gurbet Hikayeleri] ” Travel Writing: Perspectives from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, Boston University, April 20, 2007.
• “Coping with Assertive Envoys and Other Issues:  The Ottoman Office of Protocol in the Late 18th Century” University of Chicago, Feb­ruary 4, 2006.
• “The Inauguration Ceremonies of the First Ottoman Parliament.” Paper presented at Dolmabahçe Palace, 150 Years Old: International Symposium. Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, November 23–25, 2006.
• “Teaching Turkish Writing at All Levels: The Why and the How.” Paper presented at MESA 2006, Boston, November 20, 2006. 
• “Reconstructing a Group of Scribes’ Collective Mindset on the Basis of Marginal Notes.” Pa­per presented at Sebeb-i Telif: A Symposium on Ottoman Primary Sources, Harvard University, November 16-17, 2006.
• “War der osmanische Sultan heilig? Zur Herrschaftskonzeption der Osmanen.” Lecture presented at Bamberg University (Germany). July 7, 2005.
• “The ‘affair du tome VIII’ in Galland’s Nights – Revisited.” Arabian Nights: Eastern and Western Vantage Points, Harvard University, April 22-23, 2005.
• “Controversies on Sufi Garments in the Ottoman Empire.” IV. International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies: Law and Sufism, Murcia (Spain), May 8-10, 2003.
• “‘In-stabilitas loci’: Wie mobil waren die Osmanischen Sultane?.” Lecture presented at Bamberg University (Germany). Bayerisches Orient Colloquium, July 4, 2002.
• “Opium for the Subjects? Religiosity as a Legitimizing Factor for the Ottoman Sultan.” Paper presented at the Authority and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul July 6-7, 2001 and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, December 16, 2003.
• “Das Empfangszeremoniell für den Botschafter des Directoire Général Aubert-Dubayet an die Hohe Pforte im Jahre 1797.” Paper presented at the 28. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Bamberg, Germany, 2001.
• “Interpreting Monuments: Charitable Buildings, Monuments, and the Construction of Collective Memory in the Ottoman Empire.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of MESA in Orlando, Florida 2000.
• “Some Remarks on Ottoman Sultan’s Legitimacy.” Paper presented at the DAVO (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient) conference in Hamburg, Germany, December 1999.
• “The Use of Arabic Script in the Fountain Inscriptions of Istanbul as a Didactic and Ornamental Element.” Paper presented at the conference “Inscription as Art in the World of Islam”, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (April 1996).

PROJECT EDITORSHIP

• This project prepares an update version of F. Babinger’s Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen und ihre Werke (Leipzig, 1927), a bio-bibliographic reference work for Ottoman studies that will list and describe all the published works, university dissertations, and manuscript catalogues, as well as survey the collections of the most important manuscript libraries of the world. The project was initiated in the Fall of 2003. Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University), Hakan Karateke, and Cornell Fleischer (The University of Chicago) are the editors of the Historians of the Ottoman Empire.

 

October 2007

Turkish Studies at Harvard

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