Assistant Professor (2007)

Middle East

Office Hours: N/A

Office: 216 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-1439

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: fz5dvirginia.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Biography

Before coming to the University of Virginia, Fariba Zarinebaf taught at Northwestern University as a lecturer, Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey as an assistant professor and at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a visiting assistant professor. Her areas of interest include the Ottoman Empire, Iran, the Eastern Mediterranean world, gender and Islamic law, urban and social history in the early modern and modern periods. She has published extensively on gender and Islam, Ottoman and Iranian urban and social history, and Balkan history. She has received two NEH post-doctoral fellowships for a project on the social history of crime and urban violence in Istanbul during the 18th century. She has received a University Faculty Summer Research Grant (UVa, 2008) for her project,"Intercommunal Life in 18th Century Istanbul: From Neighborhood to Law Courts" and a Faculty Research Grant from NU "Ottoman Cosmopolitanism: Negotiating Communal Boundaries in the Neighborhood, Law Courts, and Guilds in eighteenth-century Istanbul".

 

Books

"The Mediterranean's Metropolis: Urbanization, Crime, and Social Control in 18th Century Istanbul." Manuscript under preparation.
This study examines the history of violence, policing and punishment in the context of Istanbul’s multi-ethnic and diverse social landscape, urbanization, and economic changes. Through the lens of Istanbul’s police records, Islamic court documents, Ottoman narrative sources and European travelogues, my manuscript will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of criminality, policing and punishment in eighteenth century Istanbul.

Fariba Zarinebaf, J.L. Davis and J. Bennet, An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: Southwest Morea in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies, 2005).

Thierry Zarcone and Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr, eds., Les Iraniens d'Istanbul. (Bibliothèque Iranienne No. 42, Varia Turcica XXIV) Paris, Tehran, and Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, Paris, Tehran, Louvain: Peeters, 1993.

Recent articles

"From Istanbul to Tabriz: Modernity and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Forthcoming; “Feeding the Poor: The ‘Imaret of Rab’-i Rashidi in Tabriz” in Feeding People, Feeding Power, Imarets in the Ottoman Empire edited by Amy Singer, Nina Ergin and Christoph Neumann (Istanbul: Eren Publsihers, 2007);

“Women, Patronage and Charity in Ottoman Istanbul,” in Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, ed. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, (Syracuse University Press, 2005).

“The role of women in the urban economy of Istanbul, 1700-1850,” International Journal of Labor and Working-Class History, 60 (Fall 2001).

Courses

Zarinebaf will offer courses on the Survey of the Middle East from the Rise of Islam to 1800; Seminar on the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, Gender and Islam in Middle Eastern History; Iran from 1501 to 1978.