From the Editor’s Desk · Origins, Development, and Persistence of Classical Wahhabism (1153–1351/1741– 1932),” on September 4, 2018. The ex-amination chair was Professor

department, is writ-ing a history of the Pindus range during the Ottoman period. To read more about Greene’s appoint-ment click here.

Sabine Schmidtke, Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Near Eastern Studies and Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, edited Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018 (Gorgias Press, 2018) and discussed this history at a talk, “Uncovering 80 Years of Research into the Near and Middle East at the Institute

for Advanced Study” on October 12. To learn more about this book click here. Later in the semes-ter, on December 4, Schmidtke discussed her new book, Tra-ditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst

Political Turmoil and War: Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Ismaʻil b. al-Mutahhar al-Mansur (1915-2016) and His Personal Library (UCOPress, Cordoba University Press: CNERU; Princeton: IAS, [2018]), in a talk, “Salvaging the Zaydi Manuscript Tradi-tion: the Fate of Private and Family Librar-ies in 20th-century Yemen.” To learn more about this book click here. She also wrote the introduction to Materials for the Intellectual History of Imami Shiʿism

From the Editor’s Desk

This issue of the Near Eastern Studies Newsletter both describes the accomplish-ments of the faculty, students, and alumni of Near Eastern Studies and documents the many activities sponsored by the Depart-ment, the Program, and the Transregional Institute (TRI) during the Fall Semester of the 2018–19 academic year.

This issue also contains an obituary for Professor Emeritus Norman Itzkowitz, who passed away on January 20, 2019. Let us celebrate his life by remembering the posi-tive influence he had on generations of Princeton students.

William Blair

Faculty news

Class of 1943 Uni-versity Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Direc-tor of Graduate Studies Michael Cook added a new responsibility for the 2018–19 aca-demic year, that

of Acting Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Per-sian Gulf Studies. He was a speaker at the Center’s roundtable, “The Near East: Iran’s Interregional Dynamics.”

Acting Chair and Professor of Near Eastern Studies Bernard Haykel was interviewed on BBC concern-ing the US Senate

vote on Yemen and Saudi-U.S. relations. To hear the interview click here.

A book party in cel-ebration of the pub-lication of Assistant Professor Eve Kra-kowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Ado-lescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

was held on October 4, 2018. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt, which received an Honorable Mention in the Historical Stud-ies category of the 2018 Excellence in the Study of Religion book awards given by the American Academy of Religion, is a “breathtaking triumph of research and synthesis [bringing] to life the young Jew-ish women who inhabited the medieval Islamic world.” To learn more about this book click here.

On September 20, 2018, the publication of Robert H. Niehaus ‘77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion Muhammad Qasim Zaman’s Islam in Pakistan: A History was celebrated at a book party in the De-partment of Religion. To learn more about this “refreshingly original” and “excel-lent” book of “courageous and meticulous scholarship” click here.

Molly Greene (Ph.D. 1993), Professor of History and Hellenic studies and associat-ed faculty in Near Eastern Studies, was ap-pointed director of the Program in Hellenic Studies in the spring of 2018. Greene, who is also the associate chair of the history

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in the Safavid Pe-riod: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections, Volume 51985A (Gorgias Press, 2018). To learn more about this book click here.

New Faces

Jennifer Klumpp joined the NES ad-ministrative staff team as TRI’s Pro-gram Coordinator on December 3. Klumpp holds a Master of Library and Information Science and had previously worked at Princeton University in Human Resources, the Lewis Center, and the Library.

Final Public Oral Exams

Cole Bunzel successfully defended his doc-toral dissertation, “Manifest Enmity: The Origins, Development, and Persistence of Classical Wahhabism (1153–1351/1741–

1932),” on September 4, 2018. The ex-amination chair was Professor Bernard A. Haykel and the examiners were Michael A. Cook and M. Qasim Zaman.

Usaama A. al-Azami successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Modern Islamic Political Thought: Islamism in the Arab World from the Late 20th to Early 21st

Centuries,” on October 23, 2018. The ex-amination chair was Professor Bernard A. Haykel and the examiners were Michael A. Cook and M. Qasim Zaman.

Graduate Student News

On November 13, 2018, 5th-year Ph.D. student Cecilia Palombo presented “Mul-tilingual Scribes in Abbasid Egypt” at the Compara-tive Diplomat-ics Workshop, a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. The Workshop is convened by Tom Conlan (EAS/History), Helmut Reimitz (History), and Marina Rustow (NES/History) and co-ordinated by Brendan Goldman (JDS).

Alumni news

Yaron Ayalon (Ph.D. 2009) has been appointed director of the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program and as-sociate professor of Jewish studies at the College of Charleston,

effective July 1, 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at Ball State Univer-sity and has published Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes with Cambridge Univer-sity Press (2014).

Kerry Brodie (B.A. ’12) has founded a program to train refugees as line cooks and to con-nect these job seekers with un-derstaffed restau-rants in New York City. The nonprof-it, Emma’s Torch, is named for the poet Emma Lazarus, whose words are inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, and as of September 2018 has graduated nine-

teen students, with all finding full-time employment. To read more about Emma’s Torch click here.

Jane Hathaway (Ph.D. 1992) has pub-lished The Chief Eu-nuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power Broker with Cambridge Uni-versity Press (2018). “Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to ana-lyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East Af-rica and his political, economic, and reli-gious role from the inception of his office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the palace harem in the early twentieth century. Hathaway high-lights the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs developed in East Af-rica, as well as exploring the Chief Eunuch’s connections to Egypt and Medina. By trac-ing the evolution of the office, we see how the Chief Eunuch’s functions changed in response to transformations in Ottoman society, from the generalized crisis of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the nineteenth century.” To learn more about this book click here. For an Ottoman History Podcast related to the book click here.

Samuel Helfont (Ph.D. 2015) has published Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insur-gencies in Iraq (Oxford University Press 2018). “One of the first books to examine Iraqi state and Ba’th Party Ar-

chives and the first book on this subject to use Ba’th Party records, [it] provides a new explanation for Saddam Hussein’s in-strumentalizing of Islam in the 1990s and 2000s [and] offers a new explanation for the rise of religious insurgencies in post-2003 Iraq. To learn more about this book click here.

Deniz Kılınçoğlu (Ph.D. 2012) has published İslam, İktisat, Ordu ve Reform: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda İlk İktisat Eseri ve Tarihsel Bağlamı (Islam, Economics, Army,

and Reform: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Historical Con-text) with Istanbul Bilgi University Press (2018). The book consists of two main parts: The first part is a detailed analysis

of the first Ottoman treatise on political economy, “Risale-i Tedbir-i Umran-i Mülki” (c. 1833–1834), in its historical and intel-lectual context. The second part includes a transliteration into the Latin script of the manuscript along with the facsimile of the original document.

Jessica Marglin (Ph.D. 2012) pre-sented “Nationality on Trial: Fixing Iden-tity in the Modern Mediterranean” on October 17, 2019, in a talk sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies. Mar-glin is an assistant professor of Religion and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of South-ern California.

Kristina Richardson (B.A. History, Certifi-cate in Near Eastern Studies ’03), an as-sociate professor in History at Queens College and in Mid-dle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Cen-

ter of CUNY, returned to 202 Jones Hall to discuss “The Medieval Bulhān: An Unrec-ognized Genre of Illustrated Astrological Books” on October 15, 2019, as part of the Brown Bag Lunch Series of talks.

Alice Su (WWS B.A., Certificate in Near Eastern Studies, ’13) published an article, “Secular youths in Iraq oppose cross-sectarian militia coalitions,” in The At-lantic on July 5, 2018. An independent, award-winning journalist currently based in Amman, Jordan, Su’s writings have been published by The Associated Press, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Wash-ington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Guard-ian, BBC News, Foreign Policy, Politi-

co, VICE News, WIRED and Al Jazeera, among other outlets.

Alan Verskin (Ph.D. 2010) has published A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a Euro-pean Orientalist and His Native Guide: A Translation of Hayyim Habshush’s Travelogue with Stanford Univer-sity Press (2019). A memoir of the travels undertaken by Hayy-im Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, and the Euro-pean orientalist Joseph Halévy in 1869, A Vision of Yemen describes the “daily lives of men and women, rich and poor, Jewish and Muslim, during a turbulent period of war and both Ottoman and European im-perialist encroachment. With this transla-tion, Alan Verskin recovers the lost voice of a man passionately committed to his land and people.” In addition to the “masterful translation,” Verskin provides “an acces-sible historical introduction to the work.” To learn more about this book click here.

Oded Zinger (Ph.D. 2014) has been of-fered a tenure-track job at Hebrew Uni-versity in the Jewish History Department.

Events

Brown Bag Lunch Talks

The Fall 2018 Brown Bag Lunch talks opened with Amir Moosavi presenting “Chronic Wounds: Debating the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian Literatures.” Other talks in the series were Hala Halim (New York University) speaking about “Translating the Afro-Asian”; Tom-maso Tesei (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

& Institute for Advanced Study) discuss-ing “Byzantine War Propaganda and the Origins of the Qur’ānic Concept of Fight-ing Martyrdom”; Scott Lucas (University of Arizona & Institute for Advanced Study) speaking about “Qadi Ja’far and the Revival of Zaydi Islam in 6th/12th century Yemen”; Kristina Richardson (Queens College & the Graduate Center of CUNY) presenting “The Medieval Bulhān: An Unrecognized Genre of Illustrated Astrological Books”; Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University & Institute for Advanced Study) discuss-ing “Francesco Pecorini’s Letter in Arabic to Francesco Redi (Florence, 1667)—An Exercise in Microhistory and World Philol-ogy”; Maha Nassar (University of Arizona & Institute for Advanced Study) presenting “Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Is-rael and the Arab World”; Geoffrey Mose-ley (Sewanee University of the South) dis-cussing “The Arabic Plato: Problems and Prospects”; Christian Mauder (University of Leipzig and Institute for Advanced Study) speaking about “Courtly Identities in Mam-luk Egypt: Law, Gender, and Theology in the majālis of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)”; Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford & Institute for Advanced Study) presenting “Girlhood translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909)”; and Abigail Krasner Balbale (New York University) speaking about “Reimagining the Reconquista: Problems in the Arabic Historiography of al-Andalus.”

The 2018 Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series

Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Profes-sor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard Uni-versity’s History of Art and Architecture Department, presented three lectures for the 2018 Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series on November 26–28, 2019. The titles of the lectures were: “Transre-gional Connectivities: Architecture and Opening Brown Bag Lunch talk: Amir Moosavi

Final Brown Bag Lunch talk: Abigail Krasner Balbale

the Construction of Early Modern Islamic Empires,” “Monuments in Dialogue: Socio-Religious Architectural Landscapes of the Ottomans and Safavids,” and “Mughal Dy-nastic Mausoleums and the Taj Mahal in a Comparative-Connective Perspective.”

This public lecture series was established by the family and friends of Leon B. Poul-lada (1913–1987), a United States career diplomat whose service took him to South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran. Mr. Poullada retired with the rank of ambassador and then earned a doctoral degree in Politics and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Thereafter, he devoted almost two decades to teaching and scholarship.

In recognition of his diplomatic and schol-arly contributions, especially his long as-sociation with the peoples of Persian and Turkish languages and cultures, this public lecture series under the auspices of the Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princ-eton University, invites eminent scholars in Islamic studies, broadly defined, to pres-ent the results of their scholarship in a form meaningful to the nonspecialist.

Ertegun Lecture

Ali Yaycıoğlu, associ-ate professor of History at Stanford University, discussed “Networks of Debt, Coalitions of Trust and Cycle of Crisis: The Ottoman Empire in the Long Eighteenth Centu-ry” on October 24, 2018.

Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium

The Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium featured three papers during the Fall Se-mester. The presentations were: Julian Weideman (History), “Praxis of Islamic reform: student housing, ‘disorder,’ and the limits of iṣlāḥ at the Zaytuna mosque-university, 1910–1955”; Yitz Landes (Re-ligion), “The Politics of the Oral Torah: A New Reading in The Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon”; and David Lennington (English), “Arabic as a “Vernacular” and Classical An-tiquity: The Case of Orosius.”

The Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum for discussion and peer review of graduate students’ research projects and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in the field of Islamic Studies. The Islamic Studies Colloquium formed in the spring of 2009 with the hope of encouraging an in-terdepartmental discussion and circulation of ideas among graduate students and pro-fessors with an interest in Islamic Studies.

PISC is supported by the generosity of Princeton University’s Department of Re-ligion, the Department and Program of Near Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of Religion.

Public Lectures

Near Eastern Studies sponsored or co-sponsored a number of public lectures during the Fall Semester. These included: “Russia in Syria: Opportunism or Strategy for the Long Game?” by Maxim A. Such-kov, a Senior Fellow at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGI-MO-University); “Bless the Hands of the Soldiers” by David Kirkpatrick, an inter-national correspondent for The New York Times; “Thoughts about the Israeli Mind” by Yair Assulin, an author, poet, and edi-tor who writes for the leading Israeli news-paper Ha’aretz; “On State and Stateless Imaginations,” the 2018 Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture, by Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY; and “Said the Prophet of God: Ha-dith Commentary across a Millennium: A Book Talk and Conversation” by Joel Belcher, a scholar of Islamic history and thought at George Washington University.

Conference

On October 28–29, 2018, scholars from Harvard, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Princeton, Toronto, University of Southern California, and Yale gathered to discuss “Conceptions of Law: Between ‘Theology’ and Positive Law.”

Concert

On November 9, 2018, the Al Bustan Ensem-ble performed Of Roads and Homes, a mov-ing audio/video orchestral per-formance com-posed by leg-endary Syrian musician, Kinan A b o u - A f a c h . The piece is Abou-Afach’s response to the displacement of nearly 12 million Syrians in the past eight years and is a meditation on themes of home, exile, and displace-ment in the past and present alike, and well beyond the Middle East. Earlier in the day, Abou-Afach (cello), Hafez Kotain (per-cussion), and Issam Rafea (oud) spoke on “Classical Music of the Middle East.”

TRI events

The Institute for the Study of the Con-temporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) sponsored a num-ber of lectures and two workshops. On September 24, 2018, His Excellency Ge-bran Bassil, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mrs. Leon B. Poullada, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Peter Poullada

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil

and Emigrants, The Republic of Leba-non, discussed the “The Crisis of the Displaced Syrians in Lebanon and Their Return.” October talks were “Overstat-ing Islam in Turkey and the Middle East” by Ömer Taşpınar (Professor of Na-tional Security Strategy at the National Defense University) and “The Demise of the Islamist Utopia: What’s Next?” by Hicham El Alaoui (Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for Inter-national Affairs at Harvard University). In November, Isabella de la Houssaye (owner of Material Culture) presented “The Veil Decoded” and Calvert Jones (Assistant Professor of Government & Politics, University of Maryland, College Park) spoke about “Shaping the Post-Petroleum Society: Nationalism and Social Engineering in the Gulf.” Closing out the Fall lectures in December was Mandana Limbert (Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY), who spoke on “Prayer, Passports, and the Politics of Indian Ocean Travel.”

TRI organized two workshops, the first, “Islam and Politics in India,” held Octo-ber 26, 2018. Organised by Christophe Jaffrelot and Bernard Haykel, the work-shop featured seven presentations.

The second workshop, “Changing State-Society Relations in Gulf Rentier States” was convened by TRI director Bernard Haykel, Jessie Moritz (Australian Na-tional University and former TRI fellow), and Makio Yamada (TRI fellow and visiting lecturer in NES). Held January 25–26, 2019, the workshop featured presentations by scholars from the American Enterprise Institute, Austra-lian National University, King Fahd Uni-versity of Petroleum and Minerals, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, London School of Economics, Princeton University, Rice University, and the University of Houston.

Language events

Language tables

Language tables provide opportunities for students to practice a language outside the classroom in a social setting. There were Arabic tables Mondays at the Center for Jewish Life, Wednesdays at Whitman College, and Thursdays at Butler College. There were Hebrew tables Mondays and Thursdays at the Center for Jewish Life. The Persian table met Thursdays, and the Turkish table met Fridays at Butler College.

Language talks

Language talks provide an op-portunity for students to hear a guest speaker talk about a topic in the language they are study-ing. Often these talks take place within the structure of a language course, but they also occur as special lectures. In the 2018 Fall Semester, there were two such lectures, both in Turkish. On Octo-ber 26, Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University) gave a talk titled “Yerini Terk İdenin Yokdur Mekânı: Gazzizâde Abdullatif Efendi’nin Kaleminden Vezir Pehlivan İbrahim Paşa (ö. 1766–1820)’nın Çılgın Hayat Hikayesi,” and on December 7 İdil Önen (University of London, Institute in Paris) spoke about “Osmanlı’nın Unutulan Gayri-Müslim Su-bayları.”

Retirement

James W. Weinberger retired at the end of August 2018 after thirty-five years as the Curator of the Library’s Near East Col-lections. Weinberger came to Princeton in 1983 after five years as the Islamica Librar-ian at the University of California, Berkeley,

where he wrote his doctoral dis-sertation, “The Rise of Muslim Cities in Sogdia, 700–1220,” un-der the guidance of Ira Lapidus, Hamid Algar, and William Brinner.

In Memoriam

Norman Itzkowitz, Professor of Near East-ern Studies Emeritus, Dies at 87

Norman Itzkowitz, Professor of Near East-ern Studies, passed away on January 20, 2019, at the age of 87. Itzkowitz was born in 1931 on the Lower East Side of New York. He attended Stuyvesant High School and the City College of New York, graduating in 1953 with a major in history—winning the Cromwell Medal in History—and var-sity letters in lacrosse and fencing. Follow-ing the advice of his advisor, Hans Kohn, he entered Princeton’s Department of Orien-tal Languages and Literatures that fall to study Persian, but he “soon found the field of Turkish studies embodied in the per-son of [his] mentor Lewis V. Thomas much more attractive.” In 1958 Itzkowitz joined the faculty of the Departments of History and Oriental Languages and Literatures as an instructor and the following year com-pleted his dissertation, “Mehmed Raghib Pasha: The Making of an Ottoman Grand Vezir.” In 1961 he was hired as an assistant professor in the just renamed Department of Oriental Studies, in 1966 he was pro-moted to associate professor, and in 1973 he achieved the rank of professor. In addi-tion to his teaching, Itzkowitz served as the Master of Wilson College, a residential col-lege, from 1975 to 1989, on the Commit-tee on Undergraduate Life, and as a faculty advisor to the fencing and lacrosse teams. He also directed numerous NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for elementary, secondary, and college teachers. In 2001

Workshop on Islam and Politics in India participants

Workshop on Changing State-Society Relations in Gulf Rentier States participants

Itzkowitz retired from teaching and joined the ranks of the emeritus professors.

Itzkowitz was the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including a Buitoni Scholarship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship, a Proctor and Gamble Fellowship, two US Depart-ment of Health, Education, and Welfare Near East Central Grants for Study Abroad, an SSRC Travel Grant, a Littauer Founda-tion Fellowship, and a Center for Interna-tional Studies Fellowship.

One of the few scholars of that time work-ing on eighteenth-century Ottoman his-tory, Itzkowitz’s most influential piece of scholarship was his article “Eighteenth Century Ottoman Realities,” which ap-peared in Studia Islamica 16 (1962). One piece of advice that Itzkowitz often gave to graduate students was to find the big-gest plate glass window and throw a brick through it. In “Eighteenth Century Otto-man Realities,” Itzkowitz took aim at Al-bert H. Lybyer’s definition (1913) of the Ruling and Muslim Institutions of the Ot-toman empire, a thesis that argued that the military/administrative elite of the Ot-toman empire was dominated by Christian converts to Islam and that the Muslim In-stitution was filled with Muslim-born indi-viduals. Accepted by Arnold Toynbee and, more importantly, with some reservations by H. A. R. Gibb and H. Bowen in their major work Islamic Society and the West (1950, 1957), the Lybyer thesis dominated the field for half a century until its under-pinnings were shattered by Itzkowitz’s prosopographic research into eighteenth-century (and earlier) Ottoman career lines. According to Zachary Lockman (B.A.’74), “Eighteenth Century Ottoman Realities” establishes Itzkowitz as one of the first American critics of Orientalism.

Itzkowitz’s pioneering work in Ottoman prosopography was a significant contribu-tion to the field of Ottoman studies and resulted in three additional articles: “‘Kim-siniz Bey Efendi,’ or A Look at Tanzimat through Namier-colored Glasses” (1969), “The Office of Şeyh ül-Islâm and the Tanz-imat—A Prosopographic Enquiry” (1972, with his student Joel Shinder), and “Men and ideas in the eighteenth century Otto-man Empire” (1977).

A second major contribution occurred in the field of psychohistory, an outgrowth of

Itzkowitz’s interest in psychoanalysis. Hav-ing trained at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis to become a lay analyst, he started a long-time col-laboration with Vamik Volkan of the Psy-chiatry Department at the University of Virginia Medical School, which resulted in

three books: The Immor-tal Atatürk: A Psychobiog-raphy (1984); Turks and Greeks: Neighbors in Con-flict (1994); and Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography (1997). He also edited with L. Carl Brown Psycho-

logical Dimensions of Near Eastern Studies (1981).

In addition to these books, Itzkowitz wrote, edited, or translated a number of oth-er works in Ottoman stud-ies. Many a student has read his excellent short introduc-tion to Ottoman history, Ot-toman Empire and Islamic Tradition, which has remained in print since its publication in 1973. His collabora-

tion with Russian specialist Max Mote resulted in Mub-adele: An Ottoman-Russian Exchange of Ambassadors (1970), a work that offered a new perspective on the eighteenth-century diplo-matic procedures of the two countries. Following

the death of Lewis V. Thomas, Itzkowitz ed-ited and revised his men-tor’s Elementary Turkish (1967) and A Study of Naima (1972). He was also a co-translator of Halil İnalcık’s The Otto-man Empire: The Clas-sical Age, 1300–1600 (1973).

Finally, note should be made of five works for young readers that he co-authored with Enid Goldberg: Genghis Khan: 13th-Century Mongolian Tyrant (2008); Grigory Raspu-tin: Holy Man or Mad Monk? (2009); To-mas de Torquemada: Architect of Torture (2007); Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula (2009), all in the Scholastic Books Wicked History series; and The Balkans: Ethnic Conflict, a study kit for high school students (2000).

Itzkowitz is survived by his wife of 65 years, Leonore, his son Jay and his wife Pria Chat-terjee, his daughter Karen and her hus-band A. Norman Redlich, and four grand-daughters.

NES in PicturesFall Reception

Acting Chair Bernard Haykel addressing theas-sembled giests, with Director of Graduate Studies Michael Cookawaiting his turn

Eve Krakowski, Jonathan Gribetz, and Marina Rustow

Alaa Ghoneim and Paul Spiegl

Thomas Hefter and Kutal Onayli

Zaman Book Party

Krakowski Book Party

Holiday Party

Joshua Picard and Ruben Elamiryan

Keiko Kiyotaki and Gayatri Oruganti

M’hamed Oualdi and Varak Ketsemanian

Murat Bozluolcay and Zain Shirazi

Krikor Chobanian and Greg Bell

Anna Bailey and Jamie O’Connell

Michael Cook introducing Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Muhammad Qasim Zaman discussing his latest book, Islam in Pakistan: A History

Marina Rustow introducing Eve Krakowski

Eve Krakowski discussing her new book, Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence,

Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

Isaac Wolfe and Alaa Ghoneim

Julia Buelow-Gilbert and Jonathan Gribetz

Holiday Party (cont.)

Philip Zhakevich and Bernard Haykel

Paul Spiegl and Greg Bell

Joshua Picard and Michael Brill

Duygu Coşkuntuna, Ruben Elamiryan, and Philip Zhakevich