Sexuality

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Selim Sırrı Kuru
Associate Professor
Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
Graduate Program Coordinator

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Related Research

Sex in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul. In: Wiesner-Hanks ME, Kuefler M, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. v. 3. Cambridge University Press; 2024:191-209.
"Gazel as Genre among the Ottoman Ruling Elite" in Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature edited by Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal (New York: Routledge 2023)
"An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire," co-written with Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, in Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2023)
“Istanbul: City of Men,” in Brill Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu (Leiden: Brill 2021), 62-85
"Generic Desires: Homoerotic Love in Ottoman Turkish Poetry," in Mediterranean Crossings: Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity (10-18th Centuries) edited by Umberto Grassi (Rome, Italy: Viella English Series, 2020), 43-63.
Klempner, Peter, "Metamorphosis of the Performing Arts: Understandings of Sexuality and Nationalism in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire" (2013). Thesis.
Andrews, Walter G. "William M. Reddy. The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE." American Historical Review 118, no. 4 (October 2013): 1147-1148
Havlioglu, Didem Z., "And the beloved speaks: Mihri Hatun's voice in early modern Ottoman literature" (2008). PhD Dissertation.
Kuru, Selim S. "Sex in the Text: Deli Birader's Dâfi'ü 'l-gumûm ve Râfi'ü 'l-humûm and the Ottoman Literary Canon." Middle Eastern Literatures 10, no. 2 (August 2007): 157-174.
Andrews, Walter. "Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800." Journal Of Religion 87, no. 2 (April 2007): 312-313.