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2021.01.20

The 27th AJI Frontier Seminar on “Revisiting Historical Relations between Islam and Europe: From the Perspective the Ottoman Empire and Contemporary Turkey”

On January 19, 2021, the 27th AJI Research Frontier Seminar was held online. This time, Dr. Idris Danizmas (Researcher of the National Institutes for the Humanities; Visiting Associate Professor, Kyoto University) made a well-informed and significant presentation under the title of “Revisiting Historical Relations between Islam and Europe: From the Perspective the Ottoman Empire and Contemporary Turkey”. He focused on the westward expansion of the Ottoman Empire accompanied by its measures for coexistence and cohabitation and elucidated the Ottoman’s foreign policy and the way of treating non-Muslims inside its territories. In the Q&A session, participants mainly questioned Dr. Danizmas about the training system of the imperial bureaucracy and the relationship between the history of the Ottoman empire and his study of Sufism as well as his presentation theme.

Dr. Danizmas making his presentation