Yasir YILMAZ
Yasir Yılmaz is a Turkish historian, born in 1982 and raised in Ankara. Originally a graduate of Public Finance, he completed his M.A. in Ottoman History at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), under the supervision of Halil İnalcık. Yılmaz then earned his Ph.D. (2015) in early modern Habsburg and European History from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA), where he worked with Habsburg historian Charles W. Ingrao. Between 2016 and 2020, Yılmaz worked as an Assistant Professor at Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic), and held a visiting professor position at Innsbruck University during the 2019-2020 Winter Semester. He previously held in Austria an Ernst Mach Stipendium as a doctoral student and a Richard Plaschka Stipendium as a post-doctoral researcher.
Since May 2020, Dr. Yılmaz has been a member of the QhoD Project at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (www.qhod.net). QhoD is a digital humanities project that digitally edits the sources of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy. In the QhoD project, Dr. Yılmaz transcribes Ottoman sources and translates them into English. As a fluent reader of kurrentschrift, he also contributes to the editing of German sources.
Since September 2023, Yılmaz is the Principal Investigator of a new digital humanities project, GraViz: The Ottoman Grand Vizierate, 1560s to 1760s, which was funded 260.000 Euros by the Austrian Science Fund to research the Ottoman grand vizierate in comparison with its peers in early modern Eurasian courts.
Broadly defined, the research interests of Dr. Yilmaz encompass the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, with an emphasis on their relations, exchanges, and interactions throughout the early modern and modern era.
Yılmaz is currently working on his first book, "The Road to 1683: A New History of the Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna," which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press and will be his Habilitation work. In 2024, he will be the guest editor of a special dossier on the Ottoman grand vizierate in the Review of Middle East Studies, a Cambridge Univerity Press journal.
Since 2015, Yılmaz has been regularly teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to survey courses concerning the Ottoman Empire, post-1500 European and World history, and Middle Eastern history, he taught thematic seminars about the comparative histories of Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires, history of political culture across early modern Eurasia, the history of relations between the Islamic world and the West from Muhammad to the present as well as Muslim migration to the West since the 1960s. In 2024/25 Winter semester, he teaches a seminar courses at Salzburg University about the history of grand viziers, chief ministers, and court favorites across Eurasia.
Since May 2020, Dr. Yılmaz has been a member of the QhoD Project at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (www.qhod.net). QhoD is a digital humanities project that digitally edits the sources of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy. In the QhoD project, Dr. Yılmaz transcribes Ottoman sources and translates them into English. As a fluent reader of kurrentschrift, he also contributes to the editing of German sources.
Since September 2023, Yılmaz is the Principal Investigator of a new digital humanities project, GraViz: The Ottoman Grand Vizierate, 1560s to 1760s, which was funded 260.000 Euros by the Austrian Science Fund to research the Ottoman grand vizierate in comparison with its peers in early modern Eurasian courts.
Broadly defined, the research interests of Dr. Yilmaz encompass the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, with an emphasis on their relations, exchanges, and interactions throughout the early modern and modern era.
Yılmaz is currently working on his first book, "The Road to 1683: A New History of the Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna," which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press and will be his Habilitation work. In 2024, he will be the guest editor of a special dossier on the Ottoman grand vizierate in the Review of Middle East Studies, a Cambridge Univerity Press journal.
Since 2015, Yılmaz has been regularly teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to survey courses concerning the Ottoman Empire, post-1500 European and World history, and Middle Eastern history, he taught thematic seminars about the comparative histories of Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires, history of political culture across early modern Eurasia, the history of relations between the Islamic world and the West from Muhammad to the present as well as Muslim migration to the West since the 1960s. In 2024/25 Winter semester, he teaches a seminar courses at Salzburg University about the history of grand viziers, chief ministers, and court favorites across Eurasia.
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üzere, bilhassa İngiliz ve Amerikalı tarihçiler, on sekizinci yüzyıl Habsburg ve Rus Devletlerinin kurumsal reformlarına odaklanırlar ve bu iki devleti kurumsal reformları ölçüsünde muvakkakiyet sahibi olarak resmederler; böylece tam anlamı ile ilerlemeci anlatılar üretirler. Gerçekte, yine aynı literatürden referanslarla gösterileceği üzere, bu devletlerin ne kadar muvaffakiyet sahibi oldukları tartışmalıdır. İkincisi,
Habsburg ve Rus tarihsel coğrafyaları tartışmasız bir biçimde Avrupa tarihinin unsurları olmakla birlikte, sosyal ve kültürel sebeplerden ötürü tam anlamı ile Avrupalı/Batılı değillerdir. Her iki devletin toplumsal yapısının kendine has karakteristik özellikleri vardır. Tarihçilerin, bahsi geçen ilerlemeci tutumlarında
bu devletleri Avrupalılaştırma/Batılılaştırma amacı güttükleri gözlemlenir ki bu, “Avrupa tarihi içinde Avrupamerkezci” bir tutum olarak dikkat çekmektedir.
Abstract: At the core of this article lies the argument that the Ottoman grand vizierate and the rise of the Köprülü family to power in the seventeenth century should be studied and analyzed mainly within two analytical and comparative frameworks. First, we should situate the office of the grand vizier in a diachronic view of the Islamic vizierate. Second, the Köprülü grand vizierate, in particular, should be viewed as one part of a synchronic 'Eurasian age of the chief minister," in a historical domain stretching from early modern Mughal and Safavid worlds to European empires and kingdoms. This article presents preliminary observations that may form a blueprint for future investigations into this global aspect of the grand vizierate and chief ministry. A broad perspective that merges these diachronic and synchronic approaches will allow us to detect theoretical and practical peculiarities of the Ottoman grand vizierate in comparison to its peers in Islamic history and across early modern Eurasia. Using that Eurasian macro perspective, I argue that the Köprülü grand viziers spearheaded the restoration of an independent vizierial authority that was idealized by generations of pre-Ottoman and Ottoman political writers and had numerous precedents in Islamic history.
As the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, we are organizing in cooperation with the Turkology Department at the University of Vienna the second volume of the Summer School of Comparative Habsburg-Ottoman Paleography. The summer school will take place in Vienna, between 1 July and 12 July.
The first volume that I and my colleague Fatih Çalışır organized in 2019 was a great success. Participants benefited greatly from the teaching sessions and lectures offered by distinguished lecturers. After a 5-year hiatus, we again have a great team of experts who will teach the basics of Ottoman and German paleography and deliver lectures in their fields of research. There will also be visitations to museums, archives, and a city tour highlighting the common histories of Ottomans and Habsburg in Vienna.
The application deadline is April 30. For further details, check the attached CAP. The Turkology Department also has a website: visit https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtungen/turkologie/veranstaltungen/summer-school-of-comparative-habsburg-ottoman-paleography/.
Habsburgs and Ottomans
Intensive summer school of primary sources
July 22 – August 2, 2019; Vienna, Austria
Dear friends and colleagues: This summer, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is organizing a two-week summer school of Habsburg and Ottoman primary sources. The program contains daily courses, eight lectures by well-known experts in both fields, and visits to some of the most important archival collections in the city. The first week of the program is devoted to Habsburg sources in German. The second week is devoted to Ottoman Turkish documents. Participants may choose to register for one of the sections or both.
Please distribute the attached description among your interested students, colleagues, and friends. For your queries, you may reach me at [email protected].
Is the Conversion of Hagia Sophia Into a Mosque an Islamic Act?
You may access the essay at the following address:
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/is-the-conversion-of-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque-an-islamic-act
diplomatische Beziehungen. Am 28. Jänner 2024 wurde der 100. Jahrestag des Freundschaftsvertrages zwischen Österreich und der Türkei gefeiert. An diesem Tag wurde nämlich ein Vertrag über die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen der am 29. Oktober 1923 gegründeten jungen türkischen Republik und Österreich geschlossen. Die österreichische Botschaft in Ankara wurde 1935 vom berühmten österreichischen Architekten Clemens Holzmeister geschaffen.
Anlässlich dieses 100-Jahr-Jubiläums veranstalten die Botschaft der Republik Türkei, das Institut der Regionen Europas (IRE), das Forschungsinstitut für politisch-historische Studien (Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Bibliothek) und die Internationale Salzburg Association (ISA) ein Symposium zu den Beziehungen zwischen der türkischen Republik und der Republik Österreich.