Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies

MA Sefer Korkmaz

Doktorand

Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften

E-Mail: sefer.korkmaz@unibe.ch
Office: S126
Postal Address: University of Bern
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies SACS
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Consultation Hour: By arrangement via email

Since September 2024, Ph.D. researcher in the SNSF project “The Flow: From Deep-Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities Creating, Evaluating, and Critiquing Workflows for Historical Corpora” (The Flow) for the sub-project on the computational analysis of Ottoman jurisprudential sources.
Research Affiliate, The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom (AKU-ISMC).

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July 2023-August 2024, Doctoral Research Fellow, The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom, Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), in the project “The Application of Computing Technology to Islamic Law: A Case Study of Legal Scholars in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt,” funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Bowen Savant.
Summer & Autumn 2022: Graduate Visiting Student, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) at Universiteit Leiden.
Since September 2020, a Ph.D. candidate in the Islamic Law Program, İstanbul University
2019: MA “Islamic Law,” Islamic Law Program, Institute of Graduate Studies of Social Sciences, İstanbul University
2016: BA “Theology,” Faculty of Theology, İstanbul University (magna cum laude)

SNSF Project “The Flow: From Deep-Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities Creating, Evaluating, and Critiquing Workflows for Historical Corpora” (The Flow, PI Prof. Serena Tolino and Prof. Tobias Hodel, 2023-2026)
Tübitak Project “The Application of Computing Technology to Islamic Law: A Case Study of Legal Scholars in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt,” The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom, Center for Digital Humanities (Supervisor Prof. Sarah Bowen Savant, 2023-2024) (Completed)
ERC Project “Choosing Islamic Conservatism: Muslim Youth in Europe and the UK and the Question of Social Cohesion (CIC),” Department of International Development (ODID), University of Oxford (PI Prof. Masooda Bano, 2021-2026)
Tübitak Project “Uygulamalı Dijital İlahiyat Araştırmaları Eğitimi 1” (Applied Digital Theological Research Training Programme 1) (February 2024) (Completed)
BAP Project “Yıkık Bir Duvarda Saklı Sır: Kuruluşundan Günümüze Tokat Hisâriye Medresesi,” (The Hidden Secret in a Ruined Wall: Tokat Hisâriye Madrasah from Its Foundation to the Present) (PI Prof. Ahmet İnanır, 2018-2019) (Completed)