Ahmed Tahir Nur is a Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, he studied history at Bogazici University and Istanbul Sehir University in his hometown İstanbul.  His academic interests broadly include conceptions and transmissions of knowledge and authority across Asia and the Mediterranean World. He works on the contested concept of true knowledge and changing configurations of the sciences in the medieval and (early) modern Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish encyclopedias, ranging from language and history to philosophy and religion, from natural to social sciences, and from music to medicine. His dissertation explores developments in the genre of the classification of the sciences in the Islamicate world, with particular emphasis on epistemology and metaphysics, focusing on the contribution of the sixteenth-century Ottoman scholar Ahmed Tashkoprizade. In addition to teaching courses at Yale, including Life Worth Living, Nur serves as an Associate Editor of Nazariyat Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science.