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Associate Professor of Russian and
Central Eurasian History Departments
of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
& History Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) Office
Hours: by appointment 309 Languages Building Courses / Publications
/ Works in Progress / Public Engagement Mustafa Tuna (Ph.D. 2009, Princeton University) is an associate professor at the Departments of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & History at Duke University and is affiliated with the Duke Islamic Studies Center. His research focuses on Islam and modernity. In his earlier works he examined the often-intertwined roles of Islam, social networks, state or elite interventions, infrastructural changes, and the globalization of European modernity in transforming Muslim communities, especially in Russia, Central Asia, and Turkey. His first book, Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788-1917, is published by Cambridge University Press in the "Critical Perspectives on Empire Series." His current project explores encounters between the Sunni Islamic and European secular intellectual traditions, focusing on the ontological, epistemological, and spiritual implications of this encounter for Muslims since the early-twentieth century. His second book project, titled Knowing God in the Secular Age: Existence, Knowledge, and Striving for Excellence in the Works of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1878-1960), studies these implications in the case of the endeavors of Said Nursi (1878-1960), a Kurdish scholar of Islam from Turkey, to negotiate the changing modern world's challenges for Islam and Muslims. Relatedly, he prepared a translation from Arabic into English and critical edition of one of Nursi's major works, Al-Mathnawi al-Arabi al-Nuri (Luminous Couplets), and coauthored a glossary of Islamic terms in English that is based on Nursi’s works. He is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Concrete Modernity in Kazan: Urbanization and Social Change in Central Anatolia since the 1960s, in which he examines the rapid transformation within the past four decades of a cluster of cob-house villages outside of Turkey's capital, Ankara, into a bustling town of about sixty thousand residents. Dr. Tuna is married and has two sons.
Imperial Russia 1700-1917 Turkey: Muslim and Modern (the page includes student reporting on events related to Turkey in Fall 2015) Between Moscow, Beijing, and Delhi: Narratives of Europe and Asia (the page includes several student projects in an online exhibit) Minorities of the Russian and Soviet Empires Social Engineering and Social Movements in Eastern Europe and Asia (the page includes student projects addressing social problems in Eastern Europe and Asia) Islam in Asia Illiberal Nondemocracies: Focus on Eastern Europe and Asia
"Kazan
Tatar Teachers School: A Globally Entangled Node in Late Imperial
Russia." In Past and Present. 2019, 245(1): 153-185.
"The Missing Turkish Revolution:
Comparing Village-Level Change and Continuity in Republican Turkey and Soviet
Central Asia, 1920-1950," in International
Journal of Middle East Studies, 2017 (forthcoming). "At the Vanguard of Contemporary Muslim Thought: Reading Said Nursi into the Islamic Tradition," in Journal of Islamic Studies. 2017 28(3): 311-40. Abstract PDF of first draft. COPYRIGHT: The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2017.
"Pillars of the Nation: The Making of a
Russian Muslim Intelligentsia and the Origins of Jadidism," Kritika, 2017 18(2): 257-81. PDF of first draft.
COPYRIGHT: Kritika: Explorations in Russian &
Eurasian History 2017
"Zapadnaia literatura istorii Tatar 18go- nachala
20go vv. [Western Literature on the History of Kazan Tatars between the
Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries]." In Il'dus
Zagidullin ed. Istoriia Tatar
s drevneishikh vremen, vol.
6. Kazan: Institut istorii im.
Sh. Mardzhani, 2013.
"Madrasa
Reform as a Secularizing Process: A View from the Russian Empire," in Comparative Studies in Society and History,
2011 53(3): 540-570. Abstract PDF.
COPYRIGHT: Society for the Comparative
Study of Society and History 2011.
"Rusya Muslumanlarinin Modernite ile Karsilasmasi
[The Encounter of Russia's
Muslims with Modernity]", in Avrasya Konusmalari: Medeniyet,
Modernite, Kimlik [Eurasian Conversations:
Civilization, Modernity, Identity] edited by Sevinc Alkan Ozcan (Istanbul:
Kure Yayinlari, 2010): 111-42.
"Gaspirali Ilminskiy'e Karsi: Rusya Imparatorlugu'nun
Muslumanlari Icin Iki Kimlik Projesi," in Hakan Kirimli ed. Ismail Bey Gaspirali
Icin (Ankara: Kirim Dernegi
Yayinlari, 2004): 241-71.
"Gaspirali vs.
Il'minskii: Two Identity Projects for the Muslims
of the Russian Empire," Nationalities Papers.
2002, 30(2): 265-289. PDF. COPYRIGHT:
Association for the Study of Nationalities 2002
"Gorusmeler Yoluyla Soykirim"
(Genocide by Negotiations), Avrasya Dosyasi: Sirbistan Bosna Hersek Ozel Sayisi, 1996, 3(4):
7-12.
Reviews
Victoria Clement. Learning
to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014. (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Reviewed for Slavic Review,
2019 78(2): 563-64.
Charles Steinwedel. Threads of Empire: Loyalty and
Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552-1917. (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2016). Reviewed for Kritika: Explorations
in Russian & Eurasian History, 2018 19(2): 454-59.
Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the
Pilgrimage to Mecca, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015). Reviewed
for Canadian-American Slavic Studies 2017
(51).
Agnes Kefeli, Becoming
Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2014). Reviewed for International Journal of
Middle East Studies, 2016 48(3): 589-90.
Elena I. Campbell, Muslim Question and
Russian Imperial Governance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2015). Reviewed for Nationalities Papers, online publication November
2015.
James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires:
Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914 (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2014). Reviewed for Russian Review, October
2015, 74(4):708-09.
Podcast: "Reflections on the Risale-i Nur by
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi" and related website.
Commentary: "It
Happened Again!: Pained Reflections on Islam and Violence." In IslamiCommentary, December 8, 2015.
Video Clip on "An
Outline of Muslim Populations in Russia." September 30, 2015.
Book Essay: "The
Opportunity Costs of Islamophobia: The Missionary-State Alliance against
Volga-Ural Muslim Activism in the Late Russian Empire." In IslamiCommentary, June 26, 2015. Interview by Julie Harbin, "Imperial Russia's Muslims & the Opportunity Costs of Islamophobia." In Transcultural Islam Research Network, June 16, 2015. |
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