Amit Bein

Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs; Professor of Modern Middle East History

Contact
Department of History
Office: 126 Hardin Hall
Phone: 864-656-3153
Email: abein@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D., Princeton (2006)

Courses
Modern Turkey and the Middle East; World War II

Research Interests
World History; Middle East/North Africa since 1800; Diplomatic/International

Professor Bein, an expert on late Ottoman history and the early Turkish Republic, teaches courses on the history of the modern Middle East.

His first book, Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic: Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition (Stanford University Press, 2011; Turkish translation: Osmanli Ulemasi ve Turkiye Cumhuriyeti, Kitap Yayinevi, 2013), explores intellectual debates and political movements within the religious establishment during the closing years of the Ottoman empire and the early decades of the Turkish republic.

His second book, Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 2017), examines the engagement and multifaceted ties between Turkey and the Middle East during the period between the two world wars.

His current book project is tentatively entitled ‘World War II, Turkey, and the Fate of the Balkans and the Middle East’.

Selected Professional Works

Books (Published)

Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Osmanli Ulemasi ve Turkiye Cumhuriyeti (Kitap Yayinevi, 2013).

Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic: Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

“Strolling through Istanbul: Egyptians in 1930s Turkey,” in Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, eds. Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (Brill, 2022).

“There She is, Miss Universe: Keriman Halis Goes to Egypt, 1933,” in Kate Fleet and Ebru Boyar, eds. Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Brill, 2018), 144-163.

“The Istanbul Earthquake of 1894 and Science in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44 vi (2008), pp. 909-924.

“The Ulama and Political Activism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Career of ?eyhülislâm Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954),” in Meir Hatina, ed., Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: Ulama in the Middle East (2008), pp. 67-90.

“A ‘Young Turk’ Islamic Intellectual: Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi and the Diverse Intellectual Legacies of the Late Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 39 iv (2007), pp. 607-625.

“Politics, Military Conscription, and Religious Education in The Late Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38 ii (2006), pp. 283-301.