Marinos Sariyannis is Research Director at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH in Rethymno, Greece. He has led research projects on the history of Ottoman political thought and on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural. He has published several books, articles and chapters on Ottoman social, cultural and intellectual history. His recent books include A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century (Leiden 2019), Perceptions ottomanes du surnaturel. Aspects de l'histoire intellectuelle d'une culture islamique à l'époque moderne (Paris 2019) and , The Horizons, Limits, and Taxonomies of Ottoman Knowledge (Berlin 2021).