Necati Alkan
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Assistant Professor |
| Location | Erfurt, Germany |
| Introduction | I was born in Turkey and educated in Germany where I received my MA in Arabic, Islamic Studies and History (1998) at the Ruhr University of Bochum and my PhD in History from at the same institution (2004). I spent a year at the SOAS in London (1999.2000), and held a post-doctoral position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Israel from 2006-2008. From 2008-2009 I was senior fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University, Istanbul, working on the Nusayri 'Alawis in the late Ottoman Empire. Currently I am assistant professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the University of Erfurt, Germany. I am continuing my research on the Nusayris. Among my publications are: - “Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Reformers, Babis and Baha’is” (revised PhD thesis); Isis Press: Istanbul, 2008. - “Süleyman Nazif’s ‘Open Letter to Jesus’: An Anti-Christian Polemic in the Early Turkish Republic”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, 851–865, November 2008. - “‘The Eternal Enemy of Islām’: Abdullah Cevdet and the Baha’i Religion”, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (68/1, 2005), 1-20. |
| Interests | Middle East Studies; social, political and religious aspects of the late Ottoman Empire; Iran in the 19th century; Islamic Studies |