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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. We 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 nine 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.

Dr Veruschka Wagner is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and a Researcher at Bonn University.

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.

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

Stephan Conermann, PhD, is the Speaker of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn. His research interests include slaveries, narrative strategies in historiographic texts, transition periods, reconciliation processes, global history, and rule and power. His work is focused on the Mamluk and Delhi Sultanates, the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, and the Crossroads Area “Transottomanica.”

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.