Education: Ph.D. Harvard University, 2002.

Research Interests: Modern Middle Eastern History; Modern Japanese History; Alternative Visions of World Order in International History; Literature of World History

Recent Publications:

• Politics of Anti-Westernism: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (New York: Columbia University Press; Forthcoming in 2007)

• “A Global anti-Western Moment?  The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and Asian Modernity” in Sebastian Conrad/Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds., Conceptions of World Order, ca. 1880-1935. Global Moments and Movements (New York City: Palgrave, Forthcoming in 2007).

• Cemil Aydin and Juliane Hammer, Guest Editor “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Critiques of the ‘West’”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 26:3 (Fall 2006): 347-352

• “Between Reverse Orientalism and the Global Left: Islamic Critiques of the West in Modern Turkey” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 26: 3 (Fall 2006): 446-461

• “Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism and the Revolt against the West” Journal of Modern European History, Vol. 4:2 (Fall, 2006): 204-223.

•  “Overcoming Eurocentrism? Japanese Orientalism on the Muslim World (1913-1945),”  Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, (Fall, 2006): 139-164.

• “The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 19:1 (Winter 2005): 93-100.

• “Beyond Culturalism? An Overview of the Historiography on Ottoman Science in Turkey” published in Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire, eds. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Kostas Chatzis, Efthymios Nicolaidis (Brepols, Belgium 2003), 201-215. 

Current Projects:

Cemil Aydin is currently doing research for a book project examining the relationship among the cold war era modernization theory, decolonization and civilizational thinking. He is particularly interesting in understanding why the colonial era notions of conflict between the Muslim world and the West did not disappear during the post-colonial period, although colonial era ideas of clash between white and colored races have been successfully overcome during a half century after WWII. As part of this project, his first article will be on "Arnold Toynbee in Asia: Civilizational Thinking, Modernization Theory and Cold War Politics in Turkey and Japan."

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