OTSUYA Kaori

Positions, degrees

Pj Assistant Professor

Research Keywords

history of Mecca and Medina; historiography; manuscripts; translation; mobility; transregional cultural exchange

Email

otsuya[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp

　

Her current project explores: (1) the circulation and reception of Arabic manuscripts on the history of Mecca and Medina, especially in the early modern Persianate world and the Ottoman Empire, (2) translations of local histories of the Hijaz into Persian and Ottoman Turkish, and (3) historiographical practices in the Ottoman Hijaz.