Michael Ursinus (born September 16, 1950 in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland pe ...

) is a German scholar of Islam.

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,

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

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

. After receiving his doctorate in 1981 on reform efforts in Ottoman Rumelia 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

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

; there development of the Ottoman studies (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-Württ ...

. 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

Heidelberg University } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

. 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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