Historians of the late Ottoman Empire have long contended that Bedouin were opposed to standardized administrative state-making or victims of increasingly colonial forms of governance in eastern Anatolia and Arabic-speaking provinces. In her groundbreaking new book, Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobi..
Lâle Can
Lâle Can is Associate Professor of History at the City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Koç University Center for Anatolian Civilizations, where she is working on a new book project on exile in late Ottoman history. She is the author of Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, 2020) and co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020). Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and Remarque Institute, among other institutions.