Sara Nur Yıldız is a historian of medieval Anatolia and the early modern Ottoman world, specializing in the Mongol period. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia: Politics of Conquest and History Writing, 1243-1282. Some of her recent publications include: “A Strange Affliction from Abroad: The Ottoman Chief Imperial Physician’s (d. 1692) Treatise on the Polish Plait (Plica Polonica),” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (2021) and “Baiju: Mongol Conqueror at the Crossfire of Dynastic Struggle,” in Michal Biran, Francesca Fiaschetti, and Jonathan Brack, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals (2020). She has also co-edited a number of volumes on medieval Anatolia: Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia (2016), Islam and Christianity in Mediaeval Anatolia (2015), and The Seljuks of Anatolia. Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (2013).
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