Albrecht Fuess | A Clash of Muslim Empires: The Struggle between Ottomans, Mamluks and Safavids in the Years 1470-1520

Albrecht Fuess is professor for Islamic studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Having studied history and Islamic studies at the University of Cologne and at the University of Cairo, he holds a PhD from the University of Cologne (2000) with a thesis on the Syro-Palestinian coast during Mamluk times (1250-1517). His research has been supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and by visiting research fellowships at the Orient-Institut Beirut (Max Weber Foundation) and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. After working as a freelance contributor in the foreign editorial department of ZDF in Mainz, he became a research assistant at the chair of Islamic studies at the University of Erfurt in 2002. From 2007 to 2009, he was a “Le Studium” Fellow at the Scientific College of the “Région Centre”, working on a research project comparing the systems of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mamluks in the 16th century with the Equipe Monde Arabe et Méditerranée (University of Tours). Since 2010, he has been teaching as a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Marburg. His research focuses on the history of the Middle East (13th-17th centuries), cultural and social history of the Mamluks, Islam in Europe, and contemporary Islamic youth cultures.

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This talk is part of the online lecture series "Material Migrations" connected to the Gerda Henkel Foundation research project "Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia", directed by Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo and Vera-Simone Schulz.