Publications
Publications
Topal, Muhammet, trans. Biyografi, by Melanie Nolan. İstanbul: Vakıf Bank Kültür Yayınları, 2026. Originally published as Biography: An Historiography. London: Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming.
Topal, Muhammet. “Bringing Them Across the Border: Dagestani Mehmed Murad Bey’s Petitions for Emigration and Family Reunification.” Keshif: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions 4, no. 2. University of Vienna, forthcoming.
Topal, Muhammet. “A Camel Story: Hadji Ali and the Transimperial Routes of Labor, Identity, and Enterprise.” Footnotes: A Journal of History 8 (University of Arizona, 2026): 70–84.
Topal, Muhammet. “Temsil, Hafıza ve Anlatının İzinde, İpek Yolu’nda Üç Seyyah: Marco Polo, İbn Battûta ve Tudelalı Benjamin” [In Pursuit of Representation, Memory, and Narrative: Three Travelers on the Silk Road: Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Benjamin of Tudela]. Tarih Dergisi, no. 32, Silk Road special issue, edited by Kahraman Şakul (2025): 178–86.
Topal, Muhammet. The Making of an Ottoman Opposition: Mizancı Mehmed Murad Bey between Loyalty and Dissent. PhD dissertation in progress, University of Arizona, September 2026. Committee: Benjamin Fortna (chair), Linda Darling, Yaseen Noorani, Maha Nassar, and Jadwiga Pieper Mooney.
Topal, Muhammet. Individuation et politisation : Portrait d’un intellectuel ottoman en tant que journaliste. Master’s thesis, École pratique des hautes études, September 2020. Jury: Özgür Türesay (chair), Nicolas Vatin (co-chair), and Alexander Toumarkine.
Topal, Muhammet. Uncertainty of the Persian Border: The Making of an Ottoman-Qajar Borderland from 1823 to 1913. BA graduation project, Boğaziçi University, May 2018. Supervisor: Edhem Eldem.