Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History

Year Joined RCNJ: 2008

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6211
• Email: pkayaalp@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-215
• Office Hours: MR 1:00-2:30 pm

Education:

• B.A. Bryn Mawr College 1995
• M.A. The University of Chicago 1997
• Ph.D., Harvard University 2005

Courses Offered:

• Women in Middle Eastern Societies
• Ottoman Empire
• History of islamic Civilizations
• World Civilizations I and II
• Islamic Art and Architecture

Teaching Interests:

• History of the Middle East
• Islamic History
• Women’s History
• History of Art and Architecture

Research Interests:

• Ottoman Empire 1450-1750

Scholarly Activity:

Books

• Kayaalp, P. The Empress Nurbanu and Ottoman Politics in the 16th Century: Building the Atik Valide by Routledge Press for their Series in Middle Eastern History (2018)

Academic Translations

• Kayaalp P. (trans.), Metin Sözen and Şemsi Güner. Turkish Decorative Arts, Istanbul: Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık (1999).
• Kayaalp, P. (trans.), Metin Sözen. Topkapı, Istanbul: Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık (1998).

Articles

• Kayaalp, P. “An analysis of the hospitals of Sultan Suleyman and Hurrem: Two different approaches to healthcare in sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Medical Biography, FORTHCOMING. Preview available of Abstract since January 16, 2017.
• Kayaalp, P. “The Use of Male Legal Representatives by Ottoman Women in their Interactions with the Islamic Courts, 1550-1650.” History Research, Vol. 3 No. 5 (June 2013): 26-30.
• “Frontier Warriors as Cultural Mediators: Shifting Identities of Byzantine and Turkish March Fighters as Elicited from Anatolian Epic Literature.” Mediaevistik, 28 (2013)
• “The Use of Islamic Court Records in the Study of the Status of Women in Ottoman Society.” American International Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 2012): 157-162.
• “Vakfiye and inscriptions: an interpretation of the written records of the Atik Valide Mosque Complex,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Vol. 1 No. 2 (July 2012): 301-324.

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

• Kayaalp, P. “Foucault on the Diffusion of Power.” Chapter in Berch Berberoglu (ed.), Social Theory, Classical and Contemporary: A Critical Perspective, Routledge Press, (2017): 237-248.
• Kayaalp, P. “Rabi’a al-Adawiyya.” Entry in Coeli Fitzpatrick and Adam Hani Walker (eds.), Muhammad in History, Thought and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God, Oxford: ABC-CLIO Publishers (2014): 513-514.
• Kayaalp, P. “Bosphorus Strait.” John Zumerchick and Steven Danver (eds.), Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses, and Issues, Oxford: ABC-CLIO Publishers (2009): 73-76.
• Kayaalp, P. “Circumcision.” Peter N. Steams (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (2008): 179-181.
• Kayaalp, P. “The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar.” Albrecht Classen (ed.), de Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Studies: Concepts, Methods, Historical Developments, and Current Trends in Medieval Studies, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Press (2009): 645-666.
• Kayaalp, P. “The Atik Valide’s Endowment Deed: A Textual Analysis.” N. Ergin, C. K. Neumann and A. Singer (eds.), Feeding People, Feeding Power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul: Eren Publishers (2007): 261-273.