Prof. Dr. Mustafa Soykut

Contact

Social Sciences Building, # Z-33

+90 312 210 50 41 or 210 3137

msoykut(at)metu.edu.tr

Education

PhD, Universität Hamburg

M. A., Bilkent University

Areas of Interest

Cultural-political history of Europe vis-à-vis the Turks and Islam; the Papacy and the Ottoman Empire; historical image of the Turk in Europe; cultural history of the Renaissance and the Modern Age; history of religion in India and Asia; history of Buddhism and Hinduism

Courses

HIST 224 Medieval European History

HIST 228 History of Religion in Asia

HIST 321 Modern European History

HIST 357 The Turkish Image in Early Modern Europe

HIST 568 History of India

Selected Publications

"Note sui rapporti tra Italia, Islam e Impero ottomano (secoli XV-XVIII)," Archivio Storico Italiano 628: II (2011).

Italian Perceptions of the Ottomans. Conflict and Politics through Pontifical and Venetian Sources (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2011).

"Hittites, Tiaras and Dervishes in Anatolian Iconography," The Art of Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent in Cross-cultural Perspective, Anupa Pande and Mandira Sharma (eds.) (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2008).

"Two Cases of Heresy: The Christianity-Islam and Brahmanism-Buddhism Relationships in Particular Comparison to Turco-Ottoman History", A est dell'Europa. Storia, Cultura e Società tra Età Moderna e Contemporanea, strumenti 12, Giuseppe Motta (ed.) (Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2004).

"Das Osmanische Reich und das Papstum im Prozeß der europäischen Identitätsbildung. Ein politikgeschichtlicher Blick auf das Zeitalter des Westfälischen Friedens"in Europa im 17. Jahrhundert. Ein politischer Mythos und seine Bilder, Klaus Bußmann/Elke Werner (editors), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.

(ed.), Historical Image of the Turk in Europe: Political and Civilisational Aspects (Istanbul: The Isis Press: 2003).

Image of the "Turk" in Italy. A History of the "Other" in Early Modern Europe:1453-1683 (Berlin: Klaus-Schwarz Verlag, 2001).