Cornell Fleischer

Fleischer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1982. After leaving Princeton, Fleischer held teaching posts at Washington University in St. Louis and the Ohio State University. The MacArthur Fellows Program awarded Fleischer what is colloquially knows as its genius grant in 1988, which is "a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future".[2][3] In 1993, Fleischer joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Fleischer focuses primarily on Ottoman history, specializing in the Age of Süleyman. Currently he is developing on a major work on Süleyman the Lawgiver while utilizing a number of papers dealing with the time period. He also works on apocalypticism and its relationship to his field of study. Fleischer also sits on the editorial board of a number of publications, including Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History and International Journal of Middle East Studies. Fleischer is also a former director of the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the editorial board of Historians of the Ottoman Empire.[4]

• Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.[5][6][7]
• Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer (eds.), Treasures of Knowledge. An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4). 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2019.[8]
• "From Şeyhzade Korkud to Mustafa Âli: Cultural Origins of the Ottoman Nasihatname," in IIIrd Congress on the Social and Political History of Turkey. Princeton University 24-26 August 1983, eds. Heath W. Lowry and Ralph S. Hattox (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1990), 67-77.
• “The Lawgiver as Messiah: The Making of the Imperial Image in the Reign of Süleymân,” in Soliman le magnifique et son temps, ed. Gilles Veinstein. (Paris: Documentation française, 1992), 159-177.[9]
• "Secretaries Dreams: Augury and Angst in the Ottoman Scribal Service," in Armagan: Festschrift fur Andreas Tietze (Prague, 1994).
• "Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal Life in the Sixteenth Century," in Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of V. L., eds. Colin Heywood and Colin Imber (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1994), 45-61.
• “Seer to the Sultan: Haydar‑i Remmal and Sultan Süleyman,” in Cultural Horizons. A Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman, ed. Jayne L. Warner (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), 290‑304.
• “Shadows of Shadows: Prophecy in Politics in 1530s Istanbul,” International Journal of Turkish Studies 13 (2007): 51‑62.
• "Of Gender and Servitude, ca. 1520: Two Petitions of the Kul Kizi of Bergama to Sultan Süleyman," in Mélanges en l'Honneur du Prof. Dr. Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Abdeljelil Temimi (Tunis: Publications de la Fondation Temimi, 2009), 143-151.
• “Ancient Wisdom and New Sciences: Prophecies at the Ottoman Court in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries,” in Falnama. The Book of Omens, eds. Massumeh Farhad and Serpil Bağcı (Washington, 2009), 232‑43.
• "Companions to King Errant: Babur and his Lieutenants to the Conquest of Kabul," in Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan (Istanbul: İthaki, 2011), 545-556.[10]
• "A Mediterranean Apocalypse: Prophecies of Empire in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 61(2018): 18-90 [Special issue: Speaking the End Times: Early Modern Politics and Religion from Iberia to Central Asia, ed. Mayte Green-Mercado].[11]

In 2011, Fleischer was arrested in Lawrence, Kansas for driving drunk with his four-year-old daughter in the car.[12] He was sentenced to two days in jail plus a month of house arrest as part of a plea agreement to drop a child endangerment charge. The judge in the case prohibited Fleischer from drinking alcohol during his 11-month probation term and required him to follow recommendations from an alcohol evaluation and also fined him $500 and ordered him to pay $370 in court costs and fees. Fleischer said, according to the Lawrence Journal-World, "I accept full responsibility for the occurrence, and I am extremely sorry and regretful for all sorts of reasons."[12]

• Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago
• Islamic scholars

• Center for Middle Eastern Studies website (University of Chicago)
• Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations page
• Department of History page
• MacArthur Foundation page