Research Theme :
History of the Ottoman Empire
Jun Akiba specializes in Ottoman history with special interest in transformation of Ottoman society during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The focuses of his current study are following:
1) Ottoman judiciary institution and life histories of individual judges;
2) Social history of education with focus on both traditional and modern schools;
3) Social history of law, exploring the legal practices in Ottoman society by utilizing sharia court registers;
4) History on reading and writing in Ottoman society.
His main publications include: ““Girls are also People of the Holy Qur’an”: Girls’ Schools and Female Teachers in Pre-Tanzimat Istanbul,” Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 17 (2019) forthcoming, “Sharī‘a Judges in the Ottoman Nizāmiye Courts, 1864–1908,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları 51 (2018): 209–238, “The Local Councils as the Origin of the Parliamentary System in the Ottoman Empire,” in Development of Parliamentarism in the Modern Islamic World, ed. Sato Tsugitaka (Tokyo: Tokyo Bunko, 2009), 176–204, “A New School for Qadis: Education of the Sharia Judges in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Turcica 35 (2003): 125–163, and a coedited book (with Nobuya Hashimoto), Social History of Education in Modern Islam: Perspectives from Ottoman History [in Japanese], Kyoto: Showado, 2014.