Prof. Fetvaci wins Ottoman Book Award
Emine Fetvaci, affiliated professor with Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA) and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was awarded the 2014 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Foundation for her book Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press, 2013).
The M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize is an annual prize awarded for the best book in the area of Turkish and Ottoman studies published in the previous year, sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association with the generous support of the M. Münir Ertegün Foundation. The award was announced in December 2014.
From the book’s description:
The Ottoman court of the late 16th century produced an unprecedented number of sumptuously illustrated chronicles. While usually dismissed as imperial eulogies, Emine Fetvacı demonstrates that these books commented on contemporary events, promoted the political agendas of courtiers as well as the sultan, and presented their patrons and creators in ways that helped shape the perspectives of their elite audience.
Fetvaci’s research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture. She is currently working on a comparison of Ottoman and Mughal illustrated histories as well as a monograph on the albums of the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I. Professor Fetvaci is also the editor, with Erdem Çipa, of Writing History at the Ottoman Court (IUP, 2013). Both of her books have been translated into Turkish.