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| Mustafa Tuna, Assistant Professor
 Mustafa Tuna (Ph.D. 2009, Princeton University) is Assistant Professor of
Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Department of Slavic
and Eurasian Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of
History. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the
Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, especially the Volga-Urals region and
modern Turkey, since the early-nineteenth century. He is particularly
interested in identifying the often intertwined roles of Islam, social
networks, state or elite interventions, infrastructural changes, and the
globalization of European modernity in transforming Muslim communities. He
is married and has one son.
- Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 11 am - 12 noon or by appointment
- Education:
| PhD | Princeton University | 2009 |
| M.A. (History) | Princeton University | 2004 |
| M.A. (History) | Indiana University | 2001 |
| B.A. (International Relations) Valedictorian | Bilkent University, Turkey | 1998 |
- Specialties:
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Politics, Public Life and Governance
Global Transnational History
Comparative Colonial Studies
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Mustafa Tuna, Reconciling Observation with Revelation from Ghazali to Nursi: Reading of the "Book of the Universe" and a Paradigmatic Shift in the Islamic Tradition,
in (tentative) Contemporary Islam: Nursi’s Response the Problems of the Islamic World, edited by Zeki Sarıtoprak
(Accepted, 2012-13) [abs]
- Mustafa Tuna, Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: a View from the Late Russian Empire,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 53 no. 3
(Summer, 2011),
pp. 540-70
- Mustafa Tuna, Zapadnaia literatura istorii Tatar 18go-nachala 20go vv. [Western Literature on the History of Kazan Tatars between the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries],
in Istoriia Tatar s drevneishikh vremen, vol. 6, edited by Il’dus Zagidullin
(Accepted, 2011), Institut istorii im. Sh. Mardzhani (forthcoming in 2012.) [abs]
- Mustafa Tuna, "Rusya Müslümanlarının Modernite İle Karşılaşması (The Encounter of Russia's Muslims with Modernity)",
in Avrasya Konuşmaları: Medeniyet, Modernite, Kimlik (Eurasian Conversations: Civilization, Modernity, Identity), edited by Sevinç Alkan Özcan
(2010), Küre Yayınları, Istanbul, Turkey
- Mustafa Tuna, Gaspıralı vs. Il’minskii: Two Identity Projects for the Muslims of the Russian Empire,
Nationalities Papers, vol. 30 no. 2
(2002),
pp. 265-289
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