Research Projects Past and Present

My book (click on image below for link) was released by Edinburgh University Press in September of 2010.  It is also distributed in the U.S. through Columbia University Press; be sure to use the promo code "CURTR" to receive a 30% discount!



I have also completed work on an edited volume with Dr. Erik S. Ohlander of Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, entitled Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800 (click on forthcoming image below).



For more on the evolution of this collection of articles, see its website and blog. It is presently under contract with the Routledge Press Sufi Series, and due for release in summer 2011.

Recent selection of articles published

Article on Ottoman geographer Katip Celebi's discussion of the Americas (in Turkish with illustrations)

Article on early figures in the Halveti order (2009)

Article on new uses for Islamic primary sources in the teaching of medieval history (pp. 158ff)

Article on examples of "failed saints" in the Ottoman Muslim tradition

Translation Project: Katip Celebi's Cihan-numa



I am presently translating the 17th-century geographical work of Katip Celebi from Ottoman Turkish into English in conjunction with a team of scholars in both the U.S. and Turkey. For more on the importance of Katip Celebi's work, see here.