Faculty: Dina Le Gall

Academic Interests

Middle Eastern and Islamic history

Research

Ottoman history, history of Sufism

Selected Publications

• A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005.

Articles, Reviews, and Essays

• Review of John J. Curry, The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire: The Rise of the Halveti Order, 1350-1650, in IJMES 43 (2011): 751-52.
• “Kadizadelis, Naksbendis, and Intra-Sufi Diatribe in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul.” Turkish Studies Association Journal 28 (2004): 1-28.
• “Forgotten Naqshbandis and the Culture of Pre-Modern Sufi Brotherhoods,” Studia Islamica 97 (2003): 87-119.
• “Recent Thinking on Sufis and Saints in the Lives of Muslim Societies, Past and Present.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 673-687.

Work in Progress

• Sufism in History: Mysticism, Piety, and Sacred Power in the Lives of Muslim Societies (book ms. under contract to Cambridge University Press)