Associate Professor
Coordinator of Southeast European Studies Program
Department of Hungarian and Turkish Studies & Department of History Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Ivana Lučića 3 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: vkursar@m.ffzg.hr

Vjeran Kursar graduated with a double major in History and Turkish Studies at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He got his MA in Ottoman History from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (2007). In 2010 he graduated with Ph.D. thesis entitled “Non-Muslims and the functioning of a premodern multi-confessional society in Ottoman Bosnia (1463 – ca. 1750)” at Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

He is working as the associate professor at Department of Hungarian and Turkish Studies and Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he teaches classes on Ottoman history. His main fields of interest are Early Modern History of the Southeast Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Legal and Cultural History of the Ottoman Empire, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, and Ethnic and Confessional Relations in Southeast Europe. He is the author of “Croatian Levantines in Ottoman Istanbul” (Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2021), and the co-editor, with Nenad Moačanin and Kornelija Jurin Starčević, of “Evliya Çelebi in the Borderlands: New Insights and Novel Approaches to the Seyahatname (Western Balkans and Iran Sections)”(Zagreb, Srednja Europa, 2021). He is a member of International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIÉPO), and a member of the Executive Committee of International Association of Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (IAOSEH). He is the vice-president of the Scientific Council for Research of Relations between Croatia and the European Southeast in a Historical Perspective of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU).

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/8480