About Aruuke Uran Kyzy

Aruuke Uran Kyzy is a History Ph.D. student at Stanford University in the Transnational, Global, and International (TIG) field with a focus on trans-imperial Naqshbandiyya Sufi networks across the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Central Asia near the turn of the 18th century. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and International Relations from Istanbul University. Aruuke also holds an M.A in Comparative Eurasian Studies from the Higher School of Economics, Russia.

Aruuke Uran Kyzy is a History Ph.D. student at Stanford University in the Transnational, Global, and International (TIG) field with a focus on trans-imperial Naqshbandiyya Sufi networks across the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Central Asia near the turn of the 18th century. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and International Relations from Istanbul University. Aruuke also holds an M.A in Comparative Eurasian Studies from the Higher School of Economics, Russia.

NBN Episodes hosted by Aruuke:

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)

March 6, 2024

Empire of Refugees

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Hosted by Aruuke Uran Kyzy

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees…

Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)

April 10, 2023

Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia

Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov
Hosted by Aruuke Uran Kyzy

The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov's book Muslim Subjectivity in S…