Research Theme :
Politico-sociological Study of the Ottoman Empire
SUZUKI Tadashi has been Professor in the Department of West Asian Studies since 1991. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and earned his LL.D. from the University in 1982. From 1983 to 1991 he served as Associate Professor at the Institute. His specialties are Ottoman studies, political science, and comparative history. His main concerns at present are the politico-sociological history of the pre-modern Ottoman Empire, the characteristics of the traditional Islamic world order, and its transformation under Western impact.
His major publications include "World order, Political Unit, Identity,"Akira Usuki, ed. State Formation and Ethnic Relations in the Middle East (Osaka, The Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, 2001, 1-9 pp.), Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, (Tokyo, Chikuma Publishers, 2000, 238 pp.), The Ottoman Empire and the Islamic World (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1997, vii + 240 pp.), Elites and Power in the Ottoman Empire (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1993, xiii + 260 pp.), The Ottoman Empire: A Flexible Despotism in the Islamic World (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1992, 254 pp.), and "The Governance Structure of the Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Historical Analysis,"in Japanese Civilization in the Modern World III: Administrative Organizations, eds. T.Umesao, D.E. Westney and M.Matsubara, Senri Ethnological Studies, no.25 (Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology, 1989), 133-153.