School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Department of History

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Key information

Roles
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Department of History Senior Lecturer in Turkish
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD (Harvard)
Subject
History
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
424
Email address
gd5@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
+44(0)20 7898 4344

Research interests

Frontier epics: early Ottoman literature and language (influence of Persian and Greek); Balkan (especially Greek) Muslim literature (al Jamiada); early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture.

PhD Supervision

Name Title
Aydin Ozcandan An Islamic Visual Culture Analysis of Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Fountains and Their Epigraphs
James Scott The usage of Neo-Ottoman architectural styles in contemporary Turkish religious contexts

Publications

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