2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-8403
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: mzilfi@umd.edu

           Madeline Zilfi specializes in Middle East history in the Ottoman period. Her research interests focus on the eighteenth century (the "long" eighteenth century from the 1680s to the 1820s), particularly with respect to Ottoman-Islamic urban culture and social movements, law and legal practice, and women's experience. She is the author of The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age (1987) and editor of Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Middle East (1997) and has written on Islamic revivalism, early modern divorce and consumption patterns, the Tulip Era, and female slavery. (For a complete list of her scholarly works, consult her vita.)
           Professor Zilfi has been the recipient of grants and awards from Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the University of Maryland Graduate Research Board, and the Turkish Studies Association.
           Professor Zilfi's courses include HIST 491, "History of the Ottoman Empire" (a general survey of the Ottoman Empire from beginning to end), HIST 419Z, "The Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Middle East," (which emphasizes political, social, and cultural trends in the last two Ottoman centuries), HIST 314A, "Nationalism and Nation-Building in the Middle East," and HIST 492, "Women and Society in the Middle East."

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