Evrim Binbaş

Akademischer Werdegang / Education
The University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Chicago, Ph.D., Medieval Islamic History (with distinction), 2009.
Hacettepe University, History Department, Ankara, M.A., History, 1997.
Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science, Ankara, B.Sc., Political Science, 1995.
Beruflicher Werdegang / Academic Appointments
Akademischer Rat, from 1 October 2016, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Abteilung für Islamwissenschaft und Nahostsprachen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Tenured Lecturer (= Associate Professor) in Early Modern Asian Empires, 2009-2016, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lecturer (= Associate Professor) in Early Modern Asian Empires, 1 September 2008-30 September 2016, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Departmental Lecturer in Islamic History, 1000-1500, January - September 2006 (fixed term position), Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Schwerpunkt in Forschung und Lehre
Historiographie und politische Ideen in der neuzeitlichen Islamischen Welt
Timuridische, turkmenische, und osmanische Geschichte Irans, Zentralasiens und Anatoliens mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der Geschichte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts
Islamische und osmanische Musikgeschichte
Publikationen
Monographie
- Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Herausgeberschaft
- (zusammen mit Nurten Kılıç-Schubel), Horizons of the World. Festschrift for Isenbike Togan. Istanbul: Ithaki Press, 2011.
Artikel
“Did the Ḥurūfīs Mint Coins?: Articulation of Sacral Kingship in an Aqqoyunlu Coin Horde from Erzincan,” in Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in 14th-15th Century Anatolia, eds. Andrew Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016), 137-170.
“A Damascene Eyewitness to the Battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Jazarī (833/1429),” in Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean 1204-1453, eds. Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Mike Carr (Reading: Ashgate, 2014), 153-175.
“Timurid Experimentation with Eschatological Absolutism: Mīrzā Iskandar, Shāh Niʻmatullāh Walī, and Sayyid Sharīf Jurjānī in 815/1412,” in Unity in Diversity: Patterns of Religious Authority in Islam, ed. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 277-303.
“Anatomy of a Regicide Attempt: Shāhrukh, the Ḥurūfīs, and the Timurid Intellectuals in 830/1426-27,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 23 (2013): 391-428.
“Histories of Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī: A Formal Analysis,” Acta Orientalia 65 (2012): 391 417.
“Paul Wittek. A Man in Dark Times,” in Paul Wittek. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and Other Studies, ed. Colin Heywood (London: Routledge, 2012), ix-xvi.
“Structure and Function of the Genealogical Tree in Islamic Historiography,” in Horizons of the World. Festschrift for Isenbike Togan, eds. İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel (Istanbul: Ithaki Press, 2011), 465-544.
“Music and Samā‘ of the Mavlaviyya in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Origins, Ritual and Formation,” in Sufism, Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East, eds. Anders Hammarlund, Tord Olsson, Elisabeth Özdalga (Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2001), 67-79.
“Condominial Sovereignty and Condominial Messianism in the Timurid Empire: Historiographical and Numismatic Evidence,” JESHO – Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62(2018).1: 172-202. [Special issue: Speaking the End Times: Prophecy and Messianism in Early Modern Eurasia, ed. Mayte Green-Mercado].
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“Unsavoury Cosmopolitanism: Reflections on Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s “Hidden Faces of Surat”.” JESHO – Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62(2018).1: 277-287.
Enzyklopädie-Einträge
“Jāmeʿ al-tavāriḵ-i ḥasani,” Encyclopaedia Iranica at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jame-al-tavarik-hasani [accessed 08 April 2014].
“Oḡuz Khan Narratives.” Encyclopaedia Iranica at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/oguz-khan-narratives [accessed 13 July 2010].
“Oghuz, Turkish tribe.” In International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005, in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias <http://www.brepolis.net/bme> [Accessed 1 March 2005].
“Türkmen, people.” In International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005, in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias <http://www.brepolis.net/bme> [Accessed 3 March 2005].
Rezensionen
“Review of: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters. Arabic Knowledge Construction. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015,” Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2016).4: 1426-1428.
“Review of: Kaya Şahin, Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman. Narrating the Sixteenth Century Ottoman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013,” Times Literary Supplement 10 April 2015, No. 5845, p. 26.
“Review of: Ron Sela, The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011,” Journal of Islamic Studies 24 (2013): 366-368.
“Review of: Michele Bernardini, Mémoire et propagande à l’époque timouride. Paris: Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes, 2008,” Journal of Islamic Studies 22 (2011), pp. 423-26.
“Review of: Yuka Kadoi, Islamic Chinoiserie. The Art of Mongol Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009,” Journal of Islamic Studies 22 (2011), pp. 254-256.
“Review of: Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy. History and Historiography at Play. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.” Journal of Islamic Studies 17 (2006), pp. 100 102.
“Review of: Heath W. Lowry, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.” Byzantinische Forschungen 28 (2004), pp. 175-193.
“Review of: Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016,” Journal of Islamic Studies 30 (2019).2: 247-250.
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“Review of: Mimi Hanaoka, Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography: Persian Histories from the Peripheries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016,” American Historical Review 124 (2019).1: 381-383.