Brett Wilson
Associate Professor
History
School of Public Policy at Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Associate Professor, Central European University, Department of History 2016- Associate Professor (tenured), Macalester College, Department of Religious Studies 2015- Assistant Professor, Macalester College, Department of Religious Studies 2009-15
Research Interest
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.
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.
