Sefer Korkmaz
Sefer is a doctoral researcher at the University of Bern’s Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, working on the SNSF & DFG-funded project The Flow. He is also a research affiliate at AKU-ISMC in London. In 2023–2024, he conducted TÜBİTAK-funded research at AKU-ISMC’s Center for Digital Humanities with Prof. Sarah Savant, applying computational methods to Ottoman Egyptian legal sources.
Specializing in Islamic law and Ottoman legal history, his current work analyzes Shari‘a court records from Ottoman Jerusalem, developing machine-learning tools for Arabic and Ottoman Turkish texts. He also collaborates at Walter Benjamin Kolleg’s Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies program, focusing on law, governance, and digital methods in Muslim societies.
Titel des Promotionsvorhabens
The Construction of the Sulṭānic Authority in the Arab Provinces: Sharīʿa, Law Practices and Institutionalization from Jerusalem (16th and 17th centuries)
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Ottoman Legal History (Arab lands) | Islamic Law | Islamicate Digital Humanities | Shifting semiotics of law during the Ottoman period | Islamic Finance
