Harun Küçük

Harun did his BA in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and his MA in Ottoman History at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2005, he moved to California for his PhD in History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His current research focuses on the Early Enlightenment in Istanbul. He investigates a series of court-patronized translations from European languages within the context of an anti-theological movement. He works at the intersection of the intellectual history of Islam, Ottoman cultural and political history and the history of early modern science. He is also interested in the history of 19th-century oriental philology.