SOAS University of London

Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East

Dr Yorgos Dedes

BA, MA, PhD(Harvard)
  • Overview
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Expertise
  • Publications

Overview

Yorges Dedes
Near and Middle East Section, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Senior Lecturer in Turkish

Centre for Ottoman Studies

Advisory Board Member

Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

Member

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Name:
Dr Yorgos Dedes
Email address:
Telephone:
+44(0)20 7898 4344
Address:
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
424
Academic Support Hours:
Fridays 3-5pm

Biography

Language and literature; history

Teaching

Programmes Convened
Modules Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Anastasia-Aglaia Lemos, Inter-War Turkish and Greek Novels on Anatolia
  • Onees Lodhi, Migration (Hijra) and Travel in Early Islam
  • Taylan Gungor, The mercantile experience of Ottoman Pera in the century after 1453
  • Ummugulsum Kurukol, Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.
  • Yakoob Ahmed, The Role of the Ottoman Ulama in the Second Constitutional Period During the Parliamentary Elections of 1908 -1912

Research

Frontier epics: early Ottoman literature and language (influence of Persian and Greek); Balkan (especially Greek) Muslim literature (al Jamiada)

Expertise

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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
  • Global
Country Expertise
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Greece
  • Macedonia
  • Turkey
Languages

Publications

Authored Books

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Dedes, Yorgos (2007) The Ascensions of Felicity and Sources of Nobility: An English Translation of Su'udi's Metali' ul-Sa'adet. Barcelona: Moleiro.

Articles

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Balta, Evangelia and Dedes, Yorgos (2014) 'Holding the sceptre of superiority in the Propontis? Late Ottoman Triglia/Trilye.'. Journal of Turkish Studies, (42), pp 1-63.

Rona, Bengisu and Dedes, Yorgos (2007) 'Languages in Contact: Greek Loanwords in Turkish'. Journal of Turkish Studies, (31) 2, pp 169-208.

Dedes, Yorgos (2007) 'Lugat-i rumiye: A Turkish-Greek Versified Glossary from the Late Ottoman Period: Serious Learning or a Bit of Fun on the Side?'. Journal of Turkish Studies, (31) 1, pp 237-280.

Book Chapters

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Dedes, Yorgos (2016) 'Bursa'. In: Wallace, David, (ed.), Europe. A literary history 1348-1418. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 331-346.

Dedes, Yorgos (2011) 'Blame it on the Turko-Romnioi (Turkish Rums) A Muslim Cretan song on the abolition of the Janissaries.'. In: Balta, Evangelia and Ölmez, Mehmet, (eds.), Between Religion and Language: Turkish-Speaking Christians, Jews and Greek-Speaking Muslims and Catholics in the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul: Eren, pp 321-376.

Dedes, Yorgos (2005) 'Süleyman Çelebi's Mevlid: Text, Performance and Muslim-Christian Dialogue'. In: Kut, G. and Buyyukkarci Yilmaz, F., (eds.), Uygurlardan Osmanlıya. Istanbul: Simurg, pp 305-349.

 

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