Marc David Baer

Marc David Baer (PhD, History, University of Chicago) is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His first book is Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Best Book in Middle East Studies. Its Turkish translation is IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupa'sında İhtida ve Fetih (Istanbul: Hil, 2010); His second book is The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), translated into Turkish as Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler (Istanbul: Doğan, 2011) and translated into Greek. His third book is At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016). His fourth book is Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020). His fifth book is German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). His latest book is The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs (New York: Basic Books, 2021 and London: John Murray, 2021).