Participant Info

First Name
Nilab
Last Name
Saeedi
Country
Austria
State
Affiliation
Research Associate
Website URL
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/personen/saeedi-nilab
Keywords
Ottoman History, Persian Historiography, Intellectual History, Manuscripts, Islamic History
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Nilab.saeedi@oeaw.ac.at
PhD
PhD

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About Me

Nilab Saeedi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in History in 2025 in Istanbul, with a focus on Islamic Intellectual History. Her dissertation was awarded the “Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year” at Ibn Haldun University. She also holds an MA in Turkish Literature from Ondokuz Mayıs University and a BA in Linguistics.
Her research interests include early modern Ottoman history, Persian historiography, and Islamic intellectual history. She has taught courses on art and literature and worked as a translator in Turkish, English, and Persian. She is a contributing editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas, where she interviews scholars of intellectual history and reviews their work.

Recent Publications

Book:
● Three Empires and Persian Historiography’: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī. Routledge,
December 2025 (forthcoming).
Articles:
● Saeedi, N. (2025). Love, Duty, and Sacrifice: The Letters of Pargalı İbrāḥīm to Muhsine Hanım.
Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 9 (forthcoming August)
● Saeedi, N. (2025). Peerless: Bāḳī’s Response to Sultan Süleymān. Keshif, 3(2),
(forthcoming)
● Saeedi, N. (2025). Yours Sincerely, the Grand Vizier: A Compendium of İbrāhīm Paşa’s

Letters Weaving Love and Longing. Keshif, 3(1), 77-85. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-25-01-10
● Saeedi, N. (2024). Napoléon’s Oath: A Declaration of Amity with Selīm. Keshif, 2(2),
78-83. https://doi.org/10.25365/kshf-24-02-10
● Saeedi, N. (2024). Similar Narration of the Other: Lārî’s Narration of the Battle of Çaldıran
under Ottoman Influence. Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 15, 1060-1075.
https://doi.org/10.51531/korkutataturkiyat.1453426
● Saeedi, N. (2024). In the Shadow of Tīmūr: Revisiting the Battle of Ankara with Muṣlıḥ
Al-Dīn Al- Lārī. Tarihyazımı, 6(2), 94-104.

● Bıçak, B., & Saeedi, N. (2023). Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Döneminin Önemli Bir Mirası: Ârifî
Çelebi’nin Şehnâme-i Âl-i Osman Adlı Eseri ve Eserin Bilinmeyen Bir Nüshası. Kahramanmaraş
Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 20(3), 1224-1235.
https://doi.org/10.33437/ksusbd.1400582
● Saeedi, N. (2022). The Silent War: Afghanistan and Iran Water Crisis. Ankara Hacı
Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 7, 49-56.
https://doi.org/10.56387/ahbvedebiyat.1211531
● Saeedi, N. (2021). People, Power, and Politics in Mesnevi: A Mirror of Rumi’s Mesnevi in Sari
Abdullah Efendi’s Nasîhatü’l-Mülûk. Journal of Social, Humanities and Administrative Sciences,
7(41), 1118-1127.
● Poyraz, Y., & Saeedi, N. (2021). İran Milli Kütüphanesinde Bulunan Divan-ı Dilsûz-İTürkî:
Social Mentality and Research Thinkers Journals, 44, 840-850. https://doi.org/10.31576/Smryj.849
● Saeedi, N. (2020). Ahdi’s Gülşen-î Şuarâ: An Unusual Example of Biographical Dictionary of
Poets. Akdeniz Havzası ve Afrika Medeniyetleri Dergisi, 2(2), 180-186.

Media Coverage
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Country Focus
Persinate World- Ottoman Empire
Expertise by Geography
Asia, Mediterranean, Middle East
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Religion