Octavian-Adrian NEGOIȚĂ

Academic Year:
2024/2025

Field of Study:
History
Religious Studies

Research Program:
NEC Odobleja

Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy

Position:
Junior Researcher

Country:
Romania

Research project: “Muhammad and His Book Called Qur’an”: Greek Anti-Islamic Works in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

This research analyzes the Greek Orthodox anti-Islamic literary corpus that circulated in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It investigates how the Byzantine tradition influenced the production of new texts and how polemical discourse(s) were articulated in a new historical and religious context shaped by the Ottoman rule. The two case studies proposed here will contribute to a better understanding of the Greek attitudes towards Islam and the Qur’an throughout the early modern Ottoman era.