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Mustafa Aksakal
Assistant Professor
History
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On leave 2009/10, Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress
Prof. Aksakal teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Middle East. During 2008/9 he taught HIST296 Ethnicity and Religion in the Ottoman World and HIST500 The Ottomans in the European Age. He is the author of The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge UP, 2008). -
Degrees
PhD, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 2003 -
Languages Spoken:
Fluent: Turkish, German
Reading: Ottoman Turkish, Arabic
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- “War as the Savior? Hopes for War and Peace in Ottoman Politics before 1914.” In An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914. Edited by Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson. Introduced by President Jimmy Carter. New York: Berghahn, 2007.
- “'Not by those old books of international law, but only by war’: Ottoman Intellectuals on the Eve of the Great War.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 15 (September 2004): 507-544.
Professional Presentations
- "Who really was responsible for the Jihad declaration of November 1914, and what did it mean?" Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul, Sep. 2009.
- “The Meaning of Jihad in 1914.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov. 2008.
- “Minority Relations within a World of Enemies: The View from Constantinople.” Harvard Center for European Studies Berlin and Wissenschaftszentrum fu?r Sozialforschung, Dialogues Series, May 2007.
- “Balancing the Powers of Europe: The Ottoman Empire, the Eastern Question, and the Making of Turkish Nationalism.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan. 2006.
AU News and Achievements
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Professor Awarded John W. Kluge Fellowship
Mustafa Aksakal, professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a John W. Kluge Fellowship ...
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