The primary focal point of my academic research is on the Sunnite Islamic heritage, especially about the post-classical Sunnite Islamic intellectual history. I mainly do research on Ottoman studies (viz., Ottoman intellectual history, knowledge transmission in Ottoman lands, Ottoman scholarly cultures and traditions, Ottoman civilizational development, Ottoman manuscript culture), the science of scholastic theology (ʿilmul-kalām) and/or theosophy (ḥikmaḧ) (viz., Išrāqiyy scholastic theology and/or theosophy, Spanish scholastic theology, Yeñi İlm-i Kelâm movement, Islamic scholastic theology and/or theosophy in the Nūsāntārā, scholastic-theological and/or theosophical commentarial and supercommentarial traditions in Islamicate and Christian civilizations), metaphysics (viz., exemplarism vis-à-vis immanentism, henology, “aṣālaẗul-māhiyyaḧ v. aṣālaẗul-wujūd” dispute and narrative, summa genera / transcendentals [umūrul-ʿāmmaḧ], ontological categories), philosophical logic (viz., Platonic dialectics vis-à-vis Peripatetic syllogistics, connexive logic, Avicennan logic, apodeictic proofs, argumentation theory), axiology (viz., moral ontology, exemplarist political ontology, apodeictic arguments for the ideal form of political government, political economy of Islamicate civilizations, Islamic social theories), international relations (viz., Islamicate IR theories, Ottoman IR theories, imperial IR theories, pre-Westphalian IR theories, decentering IR), history (viz., Islamicate history, Sunnite history, Ottoman history, decentering history and historiography, global history), imperial studies (viz., political ontology of Muslim empires, imperial statecraft of Muslim empires, conceptions of nation and nationhood in empires, imperial–imperialist distinction), and colonial studies (viz., Islamicate polities as colonizers, non-Western colonizers, pre-modern colonization, problematizing Orientalism and Occidentalism).
