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The New Area Studies enable a rethinking of world history and a more critical approach to traditional historical writing. An additional factor contributing to the critical reflection on traditional area studies was the contemporary political context. The contributors contend that there is a need for greater supra-regional integration and transboundary as well as cross-border perspectives within historical research. This process should be accompanied by the diversification of research within the traditional area studies disciplines and the adoption of an approach that considers regions from a cross-cultural perspective. The eight case studies presented in this volume exemplify the transottoman perspective in examining the intertwined history of Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East.

Veruschka Wagner, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Department for Islamic Studies and Middle-Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn and Affiliated Researcher of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). Her research focuses primarily on Ottoman slavery and dependencies, as well as late Ottoman and early Republican satire and caricatures.

Taisiya Leber ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Byzantinistik der Universität Mainz. Sie ist Historikerin mit dem Forschungsschwerpunkt der mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte Südost- und Osteuropas.

PD Dr. Zaur Gasimov ist Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler. Seit 2024 ko-leitet er die Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungswissenschaften als DAAD-Fachkoordinator an der Türkisch-Deutschen Universität in Istanbul.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald lehrt seit 2013 Südosteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität Gießen.