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Gábor Ágoston, New Seminar

Published in 2006
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Gábor Ágoston In the spring semester, along with his successful Pirates, Soldiers and Diplomats course, Gábor Ágoston is offering a new seminar on Ottoman Istanbul. His Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2005) is being translated into Turkish, Arabic, and German and will be published by Kitap Yay1nevi (Istanbul) in 2006, Al Hiwar AthaqafiPublishers(Beirut)andEudoraVerlag (Leipzig) in 2007, respectively. In addition to his articles and essays published in Hungarian, his latest publications in English include six short chapters on the Conquest of Constantinople (1453), the battles of Anakara (1402), Mohács (1526), Lepanto (1571) and Belgrade (1717), and the siege of Vienna (1683) in Jeremy Black ed., The Seventy Great Battles of All Time (London: Thames and Hudson, 2005); an encyclopedia entry on “Islamic Warfare” in William H. McNeill ed., Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 5 volumes (Great Barrington, Mass., 2005); and chapters on Ottoman administration and rule, population movements, Muslim and Jewish religious and cultural life in Ottoman Hungary in István György Tóth ed., A Concise History of Hungary (Budapest: Corvina and Osiris, 2005). He also published “The Most Powerful Empire: Ottoman Flexibility and Military Might,” in George Zimmar and David Hicks eds., Empires and Superpowers: Their Rise and Fall (Washington, DC: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 2005), and a comparative study in German on Habsburg and Ottoman imperial ideology and rivalry in the sixteenth century, entitled “Ideologie, Propaganda und politischer Pragmatismus. Die Auseinandersetzung der osmanischen und habsburgischen Großmächte und die mitteleuropäische Konfrontation” in Martina Fuchs, Teréz Oborni, and Gábor Újváry eds., Kaiser Ferdinand I. - Ein mitteleuropäischer Herrscher (Münster : Aschendorff Verlag, 2005). He devotes most of his time to the first English-language Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, which he is co-editing and co-authoring with Bruce Masters.

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