Rana Bayram

Rana Bayram is a PhD student at the Department of Middle East Studies. She is interested in the intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire, with a focus on the intersections of sufism, religious discourse, and philosophical inquiry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Her research languages include Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and ancient and medieval Greek. Besides obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History, she also studied Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) for one academic year.