Zeynep Oğuz Kursar istraživačica je kasnosrednjovjekovne i ranonovovjekovne islamske umjetnosti i arhitekture. Diplomirala je arhitekturu i magistrirala povijest arhitekture na Bliskoistočnom tehničkom sveučilištu (Middle East Technical University) u Ankari (Turska). Doktorirala je na Odsjeku za povijest umjetnosti i arhitekturu na Sveučilištu Harvard (Cambridge, SAD). Radila je na projektima istraživanja i dokumentiranja lokaliteta grčke, armenske, asirske i židovske kulturne baštine te sudjelovala u međunarodnim arheološkim istraživanjima u Turskoj. Njezina doktorska disertacija pod nazivom The Kaplıca Zaviye and the Emergence of Sultanic Funerary Complexes in Ottoman Architecture in the Fourteenth Century proučava instituciju islamskog svetišta (zaviye) u prvoj osmanskoj prijestolnici Bursi te ispituje ulogu koju su rani osmanski višenamjenski kompleksi imali u stvaranju odanosti u vrijeme kada se osporavala lojalnost na lokalnoj i regionalnoj razini. Područje njezina znanstvenog interesa usmjereno je na istraživanje odnosa osmanske materijalne kulture s autohtonim kulturnim nasljeđem i globaliziranim mrežama postkrižarskog Mediterana i postmongolske Euroazije.

Publikacije:

“Sultan as Spiritual Figure in Early Ottoman Mausolea,” u: Sacred Spaced and Urban Networks, ur. Suzan Yalman i Hilal Uğurlu (Istanbul: Koç University Press, u tisku)

“Introduction,” “Inventory Research and Fieldwork: Notes on Methodology,” i “Afterword,” u: Kayseri with its Armenian and Greek Cultural Heritage, ur. Altuğ Yılmaz (Istanbul: HDV Yayınları, 2016), 15-19; 65-71; 231-236.

Email: zoguz@ffzg.hr

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Zeynep Oğuz Kursar is a scholar of late medieval and early modern Islamic art and architecture. Having obtained a BA in Architecture and an MA in History of Architecture from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, she has received her Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has worked on projects for researching and documenting Greek, Armenian, Syriac, and Jewish cultural heritage sites, and at international archaeological expeditions in Turkey. Her Ph.D. dissertation, the Kaplıca Zaviye and the Emergence of Sultanic Funerary Complexes in Ottoman Architecture in the Fourteenth Century, focuses on a zaviye in the first Ottoman capital Bursa. It also expands on how the early Ottoman multi-functional complexes were instrumental in shaping allegiances amid contested loyalties on local and regional levels. Her work at large has focused on the relationship of the Ottoman material culture to the indigenous cultural heritage and to the globalized networks of post-Crusader Mediterranean and post-Mongol Eurasia.

Publications: 

“Sultan as Spiritual Figure in Early Ottoman Mausolea,” in: Sacred Spaced and Urban Networks, eds. Suzan Yalman and Hilal Uğurlu (Istanbul: Koç University Press, forthcoming in 2019)

“Introduction,” “Inventory Research and Fieldwork: Notes on Methodology,” and “Afterword,” in: Kayseri with its Armenian and Greek Cultural Heritage, ed. Altuğ Yılmaz (Istanbul: HDV Yayınları, 2016), 15-19; 65-71; 231-236.

Email: zoguz@ffzg.hr