Sezer, Emine Melike

I am currently working as a student assistant on the ERC project “MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World” at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. I began studying History at the LMU in 2019 and my minor subject was Oriental Studies (“Antike und Orient”). During my Bachelor’s degree, my focus was mainly on Habsburg-Ottoman relations in the late Middle Ages. I wrote my Bachelor’s thesis on the dissemination mechanisms of the fear of the Turks in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the 15th century. I also continued my research into the history of German-Turkish relations during my Master’s degree in Turkic Studies. Here, I dedicated myself to expanding my Turkish language skills, learning other Turkic languages and Ottoman Turkish. I also have basic reading skills in Persian, Arabic, and Russian. Since 2022, I have been attending courses for a Master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and East European Studies.

Areas of Interest

languages (Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian), Ottoman and Turkish history and society, Ottoman-Habsburg/Turkish-German relations (cultural, political, historical), European travelogues of the Ottoman Empire in the late Middle Ages, early propaganda mechanisms in the late Middle Ages in Western Europe, family dynamics of European royal houses, power politics between the Roman-German emperor and the pope

Historical Periods of Interest

14th through early 20th century CE

Positions

Education