Mustafa Aksakal

Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University
Battelle 153
aksakal@american.edu
202-885-2412
Office Hours: Mon. 1-4pm, Thu. 9am-12pm

Course Syllabi

Spring 2008

HIS 332 Islamic Societies in the Modern World
HIS 632 Islamic Socieities in the Modern World (Graduate)

Fall 2007

HIS 332 Formation of Islamic Societies
HIS 332 Society and Culture in the Arab Middle East

Fields of Interest

Ottoman Empire, Middle East, World

Mustafa Aksakal joins the Department of History in fall 2007. He teaches courses on the history of Islamic societies in the medieval and modern periods. His research focuses on the political and international history of the modern Middle East. In 2004/5, he was a Mellon Fellow in International Studies at the Library of Congress. He is the author of "Enver Pasha's Fait Accompli, or Necessity? The Ottoman Decision for War in 1914," Toplumsal Tarih (September 2006) (in Turkish) and "War as the Savior? Hopes for War and Peace in Ottoman Politics before 1914," in An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and the European Political Culture before 1914, with a Foreword by Jimmy Carter, ed. David Stevenson and Holger Afflerbach (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 287-302. He is currently completing a book, The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War.