Michael Ursinus (born September 16, 1950 in

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) is a German scholar of

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Biography and works

From 1973 to 1980 he studied

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

Turkish studies Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative conte ...

African studies African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography ...

and social and economic history at the

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. After receiving his doctorate in 1981 on reform efforts in

Ottoman Rumelia The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia ( ota, ایالت روم ایلی, ), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591, was a first-level province ('' beylerbeylik'' or ''eyalet'') of the Ottoman Empire encompassing most of the Balkans (" ...

before the commencement of

Tanzimat The Tanzimat (; ota, تنظيمات, translit=Tanzimāt, lit=Reorganization, ''see'' nizām) was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. ...

(archive studies in Sarajevo, Skopje and Istanbul 1976-78). He was an assistant at the Institute for History and Culture of the Near East and Turkology in Munich from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 to 1989 he was a University Lecturer in Ottoman Studies at the Center for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek at the

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; there development of the

Ottoman studies Ottoman studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Ottoman Empire. It is a sub-category of Or ...

(title of the Center since 1988: Center for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies ); since 1989 Honorary Research Fellow there. From 1989 to 1992 he taught as a professor (C3) for Islamic and Turkish Studies at the Oriental Seminary at the

Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württem ...

. From 1992 to 2016 he was Professor (C4) for Islamic Studies (Ottoman Studies) at the Seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at

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. Since 2006 he has been serving as the President of the CIEPO (Comité international des études pré-ottomanes et ottomanes).

Bibliography

* Regional reforms in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of Tanzimat. Reforms of the Rumelian provincial governors in the court district of Monastir (Bitola) during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II (1808–39) . Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-922968-17-1 . * As editor with Anthony Bryer : Manzikert to Lepanto. the Byzantine world and the Turks 1071-1571. Papers given at the Nineteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1985 . Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 90-256-0619-9 . * As editor with Christoph Herzog and Raoul Motika : Studies in Ottoman Social and Economic Life. Studies on economy and society in the Ottoman Empire . Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-927552-23-2 . * As editor with Raoul Motika: Caucasia between the Ottoman empire and Iran, 1555-1914 . Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-139-2 .

Sources

* The Cambridge History of Turkey. Kiribati: Cambridge University Press, 2006. * Heywood, Colin. Writing Ottoman History: Documents and Interpretations. Kiribati: Ashgate, 2002. * Kuehn, Thomas. Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference: Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849-1919. Netherlands: Brill, 2011. * The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012. * Ursinus, Michael. An Ottoman Census Register for the Area of Serres of 859 H. (1454-1455)?. Germany: R. Oldenbourg, 1986. * Etudes balkaniques. Bulgaria: Edition de l'Académie bulgare des sciences, 2007. * Winnifrith, Tom. The Vlachs: the history of a Balkan people. London: Duckworth, 1987. * Unbehaun, Horst. The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature. Austria: Peter Lang, 2004.

References

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