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Alsancakli, Sacha
The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Assistant Professor
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Last Updated :2026/08/19
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alsancakli.sacha.6s
kyoto-u.ac.jp
Academic Degree
- 16 Jan. 2013M.A.（Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales）
- 14 Dec. 2018Ph.D.（Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3）
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Research History
- From Apr. 2026, To PresentKyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Graduate School of Letters, Program-specific Assistant Professor
- From Oct. 2025, To PresentResearch Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Fellow
- From Jan. 2024, To Sep. 2025University of Münster, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow
- From Sep. 2021, To Aug. 2025National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris, Department of Eurasian Studies, Lecturer
- From Sep. 2019, To Aug. 2021Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, Department of Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Iranian Studies (EAHII), Research and Teaching Assistant
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Research
Research Interests
- Borderlands
- Knowledge Transmission
- Manuscripts
- Book Culture
- Genealogy
- Kurdish Historiography
- Turkish Historiography
- Persian Historiography
- Qajars
- Safavids
- Ottomans
- Iranian History
- Turkish History
- Kurdish History
Research Areas
Papers
- Three Centuries of Ẕayls of Bidlīsī’s SharafnāmaSacha AlsancakliTexts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World, eds. Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt (Leiden: Brill), 2026, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Supplements Matter: A Conceptual Approach to Dhayls in Islamic Manuscript TraditionSacha Alsancakli; Philip BockholtTexts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World, eds. Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt (Leiden: Brill), 2026, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- A Study of Bidlīsī’s Sharafnāma and Confessional Ambiguity in KurdistanSacha AlsancakliAuthorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian Texts, eds. Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt (Paris: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes), 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: IntroductionSacha Alsancakli, Philip BockholtAuthorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian Texts, eds. Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt (Paris: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes), 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Tales of Woe, Ruthless Foes, and Patriotic Heroes: A Historical-Literary Study of Kurdish (dis)Unity in the Early Modern EraSacha AlsancakliEssays on Modern Kurdish Literature, eds. Alireza Korangy and Mahlagha Mortezaee (Berlin: De Gruyter), 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Winter in the Caucasus: Ebūbekir b. ʿAbdullāh’s Description of Derbent and Its Surroundings in 1582, a Study and TranslationSacha AlsancakliIranian Studies, 2026, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Introduction: New Perspectives on the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1578–1590Sacha AlsancakliIranian Studies, 2026, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Reading Mustawfī in Turkish: A Study on Translation as a Means for the Transfer of Botanical Knowledge in Ottoman KurdistanSacha AlsancakliDIYÂR, 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Warriors, Kings, and Caliphs: Questions of Origins and Dynastic Culture in 16th and 17th-Century KurdistanSacha AlsancakliFamilies and Transmission: Authority, Knowledge and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, eds. Christoph Werner, Maria Szuppe, Nicolas Michel, and Albrecht Fuess (Turnhout: Brepols), 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Historiography and Language in 17th-Century Ottoman Kurdistan: a Study of Two Turkish Translations of the SharafnāmaSacha AlsancakliKurdish Studies Archive, 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- What’s Old Is New Again: a Study of Sources in the Šarafnāma of Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (1005–7/1596–99)Sacha AlsancakliKurdish Studies Archive, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- Matrimonial Alliances and the Transmission of Dynastic Power in Kurdistan: The Case of the Diyādīnids of Bidlīs in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesSacha AlsancakliEurasian Studies, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- The Early History of Kurdish Studies (1787–1901)Sacha AlsancakliDie Welt des Islams, 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- From Bidlīs to Ardabīl Via Aleppo and Iṣfahān: On the Circulation of a Manuscript of Šaraf Ḫān Bidlīsī’s Šarafnāma Revised by the Author (1007/1599)Sacha AlsancakliEurasian Studies, 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
Presentations
- Abdāl Khān’s Translation Programme in Seventeenth-Century Bidlīs: A Contribution to the Cultural History of Early Modern KurdistanThe Power of Patronage: Translation and Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 23 Mar. 2026
Books and Other Publications
- Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic WorldSacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Joint editorBrill, 2026
- Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian TextsSacha Alsancakli, Philip Bockholt, Joint editorAssociation pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 2023
