Brett Wilson
Associate Professor
Public Policy
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Brett Wilson's research focuses on religion, modernism, and nationalism in Turkey and the late Ottoman Empire. His research interests include print history, cultural history, Sufism, Alevi-Bektashi studies, translation, and intellectual life in the Muslim world. He is the author of Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Research Interest
Religion and Society in Turkey, Religion in the Public Sphere.
Publications
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Wilson, M. Brett. “Translations of the Qur’an: Islamicate Languages,†in The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, ed. M.A. Haleem and Mustafa Shah, vol. 4 (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, 2018).
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Wilson, M. Brett. “Mehmet Akif Ersoy ve Kur’an’a Erişim [Mehmet Akif Ersoy and Access to the Qur’an],†trans. Sema Üstün, in Direnen Meali, ed. Recep Şentürk (Mahya, 2016), pp. 39-46.
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Wilson, M. Brett. "The Twilight of Ottoman Sufism: Antiquity, Immorality, and Nation in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Nur Baba," International Journal of Middle East Studies 49 (2017), pp. 233-253.
