Dr Benjamin Fortna
BA (Yale) MA (Columbia) PhD (Chicago)
Overview
Department of History
(Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East)
Modern Middle Eastern History, the late Ottoman empire, late Ottoman education and literatureContact Details
- Name:
- Dr Benjamin Fortna
- Email address:
- bf7@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4632
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 304
Interests / Disciplines
History. The transformation of the Middle East from 'traditonal to modern'Teaching
Students supervised
- Levent Akgunlu
- Melania Savino
- Michael Talbot
- Mr Antonis Hadjikyriacou
- Mr Ioannis Moutsis
- Philipp Wirtz
- Stefano Taglia
Courses Taught
Research
History of the Ottoman Empire; modern Middle East; History of EducationExpertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Lebanon
- Palestine
- Syria
- Turkey
Languages
- Arabic
- Turkish
Publications
Authored Books
Fortna, Benjamin (2002) Imperial Classroom. Islam, Education and the State in Late Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press.
Edited Books
Amin, C. M. and Fortna, Ben and Frierson, E. B., eds. (2005) Modern Middle Eastern History: A Sourcebook. Oxford University Press (Oxford).
Chapters in Books
Fortna, Benjamin (2008) 'The reign of Abdülhamid II.' In: Kasaba, Resat, (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, pp. 38-61.
Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Reading, Hegemony and Counterhegemony in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' In: Chalcraft, J. and Noorani, Y., (eds.), Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-54.
Fortna, Benjamin (2007) 'Emphasizing the Islamic: Modifying the Curriculum of Late Ottoman State Schools.' In: Kreiser, Klaus and Georgeon, François, (eds.), Enfance et jeunesse dans l'islam – Chilhood and Youth in the Muslim World. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, pp. 193-209.
Fortna, Benjamin (2002) 'Turkey - Education System.' In: Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 547-549.
Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'The Kindergarten in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.' In: Wollons, R., (ed.), Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 251-273.
Articles
Fortna, Benjamin (2004) 'Change in the School Maps of the Late Ottoman Empire.' Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 57,1 . pp. 17-28.
Fortna, Benjamin (2001) 'Education and Autobiography at the End of the Ottoman Empire.' Die Welt des Islams, 41 (1). pp. 1-31.
Fortna, Benjamin (2001) 'Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic.' Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, 21 (1-2). pp. 33-41.
Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'Remapping Ottoman Muslim Identity in the Hamidian Era: The Role of Cartographic Artifacts.' Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, 3 . pp. 45-56.
Fortna, Benjamin (2000) 'Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 32 (3). pp. 369-393.
