Octavian-Adrian Negoiță

Octavian-Adrian Negoiță is a researcher at the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy, where he conducts research in the field of intellectual and religious history of early modern Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, with a special emphasis on the “entangled histories” of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Ottoman context. After earning his PhD in 2020 from the University of Bucharest, he has been involved in multiple renowned research projects: ERC Synergy Grant EuQu No. 810141 (Copenhagen, 2020–2022); ERC Starting Grant ORTHPOL No. 950287 (Vienna, 2023), and ERC Advanced Grant TYPARABIC No. 883219 (Bucharest, 2023–present). He edited the volume Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qur’ān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes, The European Qur’an 6 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), and he is currently working on a monograph on the early modern Greek anti-Muslim polemical literature (16th–18th centuries). He was previously a member in a research grant at ICUB: "The Mental Imagery of Eastern Christianity and Islam according to Western Travel Descriptions during the Second Half of the 16th Century" (PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0628).