Metin Mustafa is a historian specialising in Ottoman and Islamic art history. He holds a PhD in Ottoman Renaissance art from The University of Notre Dame Australia and Bachelor of Education in Humanities from The University of Sydney. The author taught History and Teaching Methodology at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Charles Sturt University and Australian Catholic University. He currently teaches Ottoman and Islamic history at The University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education and is the founding member of Centre for Ottoman Renaissance and Civilisation. His research interests include the idea of many renaissances and cross-cultural interactions in the early modern Mediterranean world between the Ottomans and Europeans. Metin Mustafa is the author of the monographs, The Ottoman Renaissance: A Reconsideration of Early Modern Ottoman art, 1413-1575 and History of Ottoman Renaissance Art: From Mehmed II to Selim II. He is also the author of Michelangelo meets Sinan: Representations of the Divine, Salvation, and Paradise in Renaissance Art, The Mediterranean Zeitgeist: Re-Orienting the Renaissance (Essays Series), Renaissance Women: Nuns, Sultanas, and Queens Legitimising Female Sovereignty (Essays Series), The Ottoman Renaissance and the Early Modern World, 1400-1699 (Essays Series Complete Edition), and The Divine Comedy’ of Süleyman Çelebi and Mir Heidar: A Sufi Mystical Reading of Early Modern Turkic Representations of Prophet Muhammad's 'Isra' and 'Mir'aj'. The author is currently working on his forthcoming book, Oriental Imaginings, Occidental Fashioning: Turquerie, Tulip Age and Ottoman Modernity, 1683-1867.

Dr Mustafa has presented at numerous history conferences on cross-cultural interactions in the early modern period. Conference topics include: Ottoman Renaissance Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Self-Fashioning of Süleyman the Magnificent, Representations of the Divine and Salvation: An Alternative Reading of Sinan’s Iznik tiles of Rustem Pasha Mosque and Michelangelo’s Last Judgement – A Testament of Parallel Renaissance Legacy, History and gender in Sultan Murad III’s Surname-i Hümayun 1582, Islam, Ottoman Turks and Orientalism, and Abraham: Our Ancestor – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.