性视界传媒

Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2008

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6211
• Email: pkayaalp@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-215
• Office Hours: MT 1:30-2:30 pm; W 9:00-11:00 am

Education:

• B.A. Bryn Mawr College 1995
• M.A. The University of Chicago 1997
• Ph.D., Harvard University 2005

Courses Offered:

• Women in Middle Eastern Societies
• Ottoman Empire
• History of islamic Civilizations
• World Civilizations I and II
• Islamic Art and Architecture

Teaching Interests:

• History of the Middle East
• Islamic History
• Women’s History
• History of Art and Architecture

Research Interests:

• Ottoman Empire 1450-1750

Scholarly Activity:

Books

• Kayaalp, P. The Empress Nurbanu and Ottoman Politics in the 16th Century: Building the Atik Valide聽by Routledge Press for their Series in Middle Eastern History (2018)

Academic Translations

• Kayaalp P. (trans.), Metin S枚zen and 艦emsi G眉ner. Turkish Decorative Arts, Istanbul: H眉rriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaac谋l谋k (1999).
• Kayaalp, P. (trans.), Metin S枚zen. 罢辞辫办补辫谋, Istanbul: H眉rriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaac谋l谋k (1998).

Articles

• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淎n analysis of the hospitals of Sultan Suleyman and Hurrem: Two different approaches to healthcare in sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire,鈥� Journal of Medical Biography, FORTHCOMING. Preview available of Abstract since January 16, 2017.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淭he Use of Male Legal Representatives by Ottoman Women in their Interactions with the Islamic Courts, 1550-1650.鈥� History Research, Vol. 3 No. 5 (June 2013): 26-30.
• 鈥�Frontier Warriors as Cultural Mediators: Shifting Identities of Byzantine and Turkish March聽Fighters as Elicited from Anatolian Epic Literature.鈥� Mediaevistik, 28 (2013)
• 鈥淭he Use of Islamic Court Records in the Study of the Status of Women in Ottoman Society.鈥� American International Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 2012): 157-162.
• 鈥�Vakfiye and inscriptions: an interpretation of the written records of the Atik Valide Mosque Complex,鈥� International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Vol. 1 No. 2 (July 2012): 301-324.

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淔oucault on the Diffusion of Power.鈥� Chapter in Berch Berberoglu (ed.), Social Theory, Classical and Contemporary: A Critical Perspective, Routledge Press, (2017): 237-248.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淩abi鈥檃 al-Adawiyya.鈥� Entry in Coeli Fitzpatrick and Adam Hani Walker (eds.), Muhammad in History, Thought and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God, Oxford: ABC-CLIO Publishers (2014): 513-514.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淏osphorus Strait.鈥� John Zumerchick and Steven Danver (eds.), Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses, and Issues, Oxford: ABC-CLIO Publishers (2009): 73-76.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淐ircumcision.鈥� Peter N. Steams (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (2008): 179-181.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淭he Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of 脺sk眉dar.鈥� Albrecht Classen (ed.), de Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Studies: Concepts, Methods, Historical Developments, and Current Trends in Medieval Studies, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Press (2009): 645-666.
• Kayaalp, P. 鈥淭he Atik Valide鈥檚 Endowment Deed: A Textual Analysis.鈥� N. Ergin, C. K. Neumann and A. Singer (eds.), Feeding People, Feeding Power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul: Eren Publishers (2007): 261-273.