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Department of History
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Email: c-fleischer@uchicago.edu
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Winter 2010

Field Specialties
Middle Eastern studies, Ottoman history, Islamic history.

Biography

Professor Fleischer focuses primarily on Ottoman history, specializing in the Age of Suleyman. Currently he is working on a major work on Suleyman the Lawgiver as well as a number of papers dealing with the time period. In addition, he has begun work on Apocalypticism and its relationship to his field of study. Professor Fleischer also sits on the editorial board of a number of publications, including the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

Publications

"A Different Sort of Scholar: 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454) and the Science of Letters," Festschrift Hans Georg Majer (Munich, forthcoming, 2000).

"Seer and Sultan: Remmal Hadar and Suleyman the Lawgiver," Festschrift Halil Inalcik (Istambul, forthcoming, 2000).

"Imperialism and the Apocalypse, 1450-1550," (Annales, forthcoming).

Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600). New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986; Revised edition, University of California Press, 2000.

"Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal Life in the Sixteenth Century," Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Victor Menage. Istambul, 1994.

"Secretaries Dreams: Augury and Angst in the Ottoman Scribal Service," Armagan: Festschrift fur Andreas Tietze. Prague, 1994.

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Cornell H. Fleischer

Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
Ph.D. Princeton University 1982