Georgetown University in Qatar brought together leading scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries at their annual faculty research conference in Doha. The 2-day Annual Faculty Research Conference focused on the period of history when the Muslim world had separated into three distinct empires: the Safavids, the Ottomans and the Mughals. March 17-18, 2019
Panel 1: Political Thought
Moderator: Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Georgetown University in Qatar
Mayte Green-Mercado, Rutgers University
Ottoman Rome: The Idea of Universal Empire in Morisco Political Thought
Pratyay Nath, Ashoka University
‘The Wrath of God’: Military Violence and Imperial Ideology in the Mughal Empire
Huseyin Yilmaz, George Mason University
The Early Modern Ottoman Discourse on the Concept of Meşveret (Consultation in Government)
