Tunahan Durmaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of History at European University Institute, Florence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his B.A. in History with a minor in Architecture from Middle East Technical University and an M.A. in History at Sabancı University.
His research interests include social, cultural, and political aspects of disease and illness in the early modern Ottoman world. Emerging at the intersection of histories of knowledge and history of medicine, his dissertation project “Of Bodily Fluids, Madness, and Fever: Many Ways of Grappling with Diseases in the Ottoman Healing Domain (1640-1691)” explores the ways of knowing and understanding diseases in the Ottoman world from the 1640s to the 1690s.
Publications
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Sıradan Bilginin Eşsizliğiyle Bir Musâhabet: Günlükleri üzerinden Seyyid Hasan Nûrî Efendi’nin Ailesi Ve Sosyal Çevresi Üzerine Bir Mikrotarih İncelemesi (1661-1665) - A conversation through the uniqueness of ordinary knowledge : a microhistorical inquiry into the family and social circle of Seyyid Hasan Nûrî Efendi through his diaries (1661-1665) [In Turkish], Tunahan Durmaz, 2024
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Stars, Djinns, and the Air: Reconciling Natural and Supernatural in Explaining Diseases in the Ottoman Healing Domain in the 1660s, Tunahan Durmaz, 2024
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