Side Emre

Research Interest

Side Emre is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Special Topics in Asian History. Her research includes late medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Near Eastern and North African Islamic landscape with a focus on social, cultural, political and religious topics. She wrote her dissertation on early modern Ottoman political and religious history with a focus on Egypt. A forthcoming article "A Subversive Story of Banishment, Persecution and Incarceration on the Eve of the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt: Ibrahim-i Gülseni’s Mamluk Years 1507/10-1517" investigates the unknown story of a charismatic and controverstial Ottoman saint in Egypt who experienced the political transition from the Mamluk to Ottoman rule in Egypt. She is currently revising her dissertation "Ibrahim-i Gülseni (ca. 1442-1534): Itinerant saint and Cairene Ruler" for publication and is working on another project on the Halveti Sufis in Egypt in the seventheenth century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Side Emre
PhD, The University of Chicago, 2009
Office: 2644 Dunford Hall
Phone: 974-2094