Gottfried Hagen

As Professor of Turkish Studies Gottfried Hagen teaches a broad range of courses on Turkish, Ottoman, and Islamicate culture, history, and literature, Ottoman language, and courses heritage, and food as culture. In his research, he asks how Ottoman culture constructed the globe and the universe, space, time, self, and others, and explores the societal implications and relevance through questions of patronage on one hand, and strategies of meaning making on the other. A related line of inquiry has led him to the study of Ottoman Islam, with a particular focus on the narrative representation of the Prophet Muhammad. These questions have resulted in a wide range of publications on geographical literature, maps and mapmaking, historiography, hagiography, and political thinking. His monograph on the Ottoman polymath Kātib Çelebi appeared in 2003: Ein osmanischer Geograph bei der Arbeit. Entstehung und Gedankenwelt von Kātib Čelebis Ǧihānnnümā (Turkish translation 2017). He is the co-editor, with Robert Dankoff of An Ottoman Cosmography. Translation of Cihānnümā (2021), which makes this most important Ottoman geographical text available in English for the first time. He is working on a monograph on Ottoman Islamic religiosity centered on the Prophet Muhammad. Gottfried Hagen is serving as director of the Center for Armenian Studies from 2022 to 2025. 

Research Areas(s)

• Ottoman and Turkish culture
• Islam

Field(s) of Study

• Turkish Studies
• Islamic Studies