Fikri Cicek - MAP FORUM

Описание: MAP FORUM - 5 April 2022

Chemical Medicine for Shared Court Diseases: Recipes, Practitioners, and Artisans from Tuscany to Ottoman Syria and Kurdistan, 1613-1639

This talk presents how the courtly health crisis fostered transregional connections, encounters, and diffusion of medical knowledge between the early modern Tuscany and Ottoman world. By examining the medical collaboration between the House of Medici and the House of Ma'n of Mt. Lebanon, this talk reveals the forgotten legacy of transimperial women, minorities, practitioners, and artisans in producing and diffusing chemical therapeutics for healing "incurable" diseases of the ruling elites in the early modern history.

Fikri Cicek is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, specializing in the early modern Ottoman world from interconnected and global perspectives. His dissertation examines how health, religious, political, and family crises generated transregional connections and diffusions of knowledge between the early modern Ottoman world and the rest of the Mediterranean. By exploring the crisis-driven mobility of a transimperial Druze family—the House of Ma'n of Mt. Lebanon, his research identifies the role that women, minorities, and enslaved people played in making transregional contacts, currents, and knowledge production in times of crisis.

His research has been supported by several competitive research grants, awards, and fellowships, including the International Thesis Travel Research Grant (2018), the Druze Heritage Foundation Research Awards (2019), the Minnesota Center of Early Modern Studies Union Pacific Fellowship (2020), and the Stavrou History & Culture Fellowship (2021).