Nikola Pantic, MA PhD

Academic Position:

Postdoc Assistant at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-Wien
Permanent Research Fellow at the Center for Religious Studies, Central European University

CV (short):

  • 2022: Visiting Lecturer, Center for Religious Studies, Central European University
  • 2021: Doctorate in Comparative History, Specialization Religious Studies, Central European University
  • 2020-2021: Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab, Princeton University
  • 2019-2020: DAAD Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
  • 2019: Fellow, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
  • 2016-2018: Teaching Assistant, Department of History/Center for Religious Studies, Central European University
  • 2017: Junior Research Fellow, Orient-Institut Beirut

Other Activities:

  • Editorial Board Member, World History Bulletin

Most Important Publications:

  • Pantić, Nikola. Sufism in Ottoman Damascus: Religion, Magic, and the Eighteenth-Century Networks of the Holy. Routledge: London & New York, 2023.
  • Pantić, Nikola. “Probing Hidden Knowledge through Divine Inspiration: Charismatic Authority and Occult Sciences in 17th- and 18th-century Ottoman Conservative Theology,” Aca’ib: Occasional Papers on the Ottoman Perceptions of the Supernatural (UPCOMING May 2024).
  • Lohlker, Rüdiger, Katharina Ivanyi, Nikola Pantić (eds.). In jRAT Special Issue. Charisma, Popularity, Power: Grace, Religions and Belief Throughout History until the Present. Edited by Rüdiger Lohlker, Katharina Ivanyi, and Nikola Pantić.  (UPCOMING 2024).
  • Pantić, Nikola. “The Outpour of Grace and the Effusion of Mercy: A Preliminary (Re-)Appraisal of Arguments for Conceptualizing Sufi-ulamaic Institutional Charisma in early modern Ottoman Sunnism (cca. 16th–19th centuries),” jRAT Special Issue. Charisma, Popularity, Power: Grace, Religions and Belief Throughout History until the Present. Edited by Rüdiger Lohlker, Katharina Ivanyi, and Nikola Pantić. (UPCOMING 2024).