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Marinos Sariyannis
Marinos Sariyannis is Research Director at the Department of Ottoman History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, where he has been working since 2007. In December 2025 he was elected Director of the Institute.
He studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, where he also completed his postgraduate studies (M.A.) and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation with the title “Marginal Groups in Ottoman Istanbul” under the supervision of Professor John C. Alexander (Alexandropoulos). He has also taught Ottoman history, Turkish language and Ottoman paleography at the Department of Book and Archive Science of the Ionian University and at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete, whereas in April-May 2017 he was invited to teach a series of four seminars at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, in Paris.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Archivum Ottomanicum (Wiesbaden) (as of January 2017), Bulletin de Correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain (Athens – Paris) (as of July 2019), Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions (Vienna) (as of 2023), Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies (Trabzon) (as of 2025), and Bahçeşehir Journal of Intellectual History and History of Science (Istanbul) (as of 2025). He has also been the editor-in-chief of the journal Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural, published by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno) as of Fall 2020. He is also a member of the Advisory Board in the research project “A Bibliographical Database of Historiography in Ottoman Europe (15th-18th Century) / Bibliographische Datenbank zur Geschichtsschreibung im Osmanischen Europa (15.-18. Jh.)” (http://www.ub.rub.de/oh/index.html), Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
He has authored or co-authored six books (and one forthcoming), edited or co-edited four collective volumes and published more than ninety articles, chapters and entries in academic journals, edited volumes and academic encyclopaedias. He has participated in almost fifty international conferences and workshops and has been a member of the organizing committee of nine international conferences. His book Perceptions ottomanes du surnaturel. Aspects de l’histoire intellectuelle d’une culture islamique à l’époque moderne [Les conférences de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 13], Paris: Les éditions du Cerf 2019, has received the Prix du Budget of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France) in 2021.
He has participated in several research projects. As principal investigator, he directed the Research Program “OTTPOL – A History of Early Modern Ottoman Political Thought, 15th to Early 19th Centuries”, implemented under the “Aristeia II” Action of the 2007-2013 Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning”), in 2014-2015, whereas from 2018 to 2024 he directed the research project “GHOST: Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvellous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities”, funded by the European Research Council – Consolidator Grant 2017. His main research interests cover Ottoman social, political and cultural history, with emphasis on political thought and the Ottoman perceptions on nature and the supernatural, as well as the history of the Greek lands and especially Crete under Ottoman rule.