Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz is an expert on Ottoman history. Her research interests includes the production of the dynastic image of the Ottoman dynasty during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566) through literature and the arts; the construction and manipulation of knowledge in early modern Eurasia; the place of Neo-platonic thought in early modern Islamicate culture; the role of literature and arts in the formation and dissemination of political culture; the transmission of mystic thought between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultural realms in the late medieval and early modern periods; the impact of the Jewish exiles from Spain and Portugal on Ottoman cultural life in the sixteenth century; cultural memory; methods of narration in Ottoman art and literature especially in the sixteenth century; Islamicate iconography, philosophy, mythology, and mysticism.