York Norman is a professor of Eastern European and Middle Eastern history at Buffalo State University who originally received his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in 2005. He specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Bosnian history. He currently has been researching the history of Turkish political thought from the Young Turks to the Cold War and has recently published a monograph on a prominent journalist in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic entitled Celal Nuri: Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist (London; New York: I.B Tauris, 2021). Before that, he published a revised version of his dissertation: Islamization in Bosnia: Sarajevo’s Conversion and Economic Development, 1463-1604 (Washington, DC: Academica, 2017). He teaches a variety of courses on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, the history of modern terrorism, the politics and history of the modern Middle East, world civilizations, and other related topics.
Celal Nuri: Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist (London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2021).
“Turkish Conceptions of the Caliphate, 1909-1924” put under contract for inclusion in the volume: Islam: Continuity and Change in the Globalized World: A Festschrift in honor of John O. Voll, editor Natana J. DeLong-Bas (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2022).
Islamization in Bosnia: Sarajevo’s Conversion and Economic Development, 1461-1604 (Washington, DC: Academica Press, 2018).
“10. Beyond Jihad: Celal Nuri and Alexander Helphand-Parvus on the Ottoman-German Alliance,” in Hakan Yavuz with Feroz Ahmad, editors, War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016), 263-281.
Coeditor and Contributor to Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015). (Coedited with John Abromeit, Bridget Maria Chesterton, and Gary Morotta); “Alija Izetbegović’s Islamic Declaration and Populism in Bosnia,” 90-102.
Book review of Fatma Sel Turhan, The Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Rising: Janissaries, Modernization and Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014 in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 3:1 (2016): 196-198.
“Celal Nuri on Islamism in Ottoman Turkey, 1914.” in Abdulselam Avvas, editor, Dört Kıtada Folklorun İzinde: Prof. Dr. Özkul Çobanoğlu Armaganı (Ankara: Hakim Yayınları, 2015), 225-231.
“The Bosnian Gentry and Conversion to Islam in Ottoman Sarajevo” Turkish Review 3/5 (2013): 484-488.
“The Historical Importance of Kazan Tatar Turks to the Late Ottoman Empire and the Ideas of Celal Nuri,” In: Muhammad Savaş Kafkasyalı, editor, Islam in Central Asia, vol. 3 (Türkistan, Kazakhstan: Ahmet Yesevi University, 2013): 417-428.
“Disputing the Iron Circle: Renan, Afghani, and Kemal on Islam, Science, and Modernity,” Journal of World History 22:4 (December 2011): 693-714.
“Bosnian Muslims and the Wartime Legacy,” in Nancy Rupprecht & Wendy Koenig, editors, Holocaust Persecution: Responses and Consequences (Cambridge Scholarly Press: London, 2010): 48-55.
“The Gazi Hüsrev İmareti: Islamization and Urban Development in Sixteenth Century Sarajevo,” in Nina Ergin, Christoph Neumann, and Amy Singer, editors, Feeding People, Feeding Power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire, edited by Amy Singer (Istanbul: Eren Press, 2007): 81-94.