Suraiya Faroqhi is an Ottoman historian and a leading authority on Ottoman history, elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the year 2022, under the category "Early Modern History to 1850". At present, she is a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey now. 

Faroqhi, who came to Istanbul at the age of 21, became a student of Ömer Lütfi Barkan and completed her doctorate in Hamburg. Focusing on economic and social history, Faroqhi prepared two associate professorship theses, one in Germany and the other in Turkey, in 1980 and 1981 respectively. The subject of her German thesis was the history of the Bektashis in Anatolia until 1826, while the work presented in Turkey dealt with the towns of Ottoman -Anatolia.

In later years, she has branched out into other aspects of Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as cross-cultural linkages. Her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts (I. B. Tauris, 2016), The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2019) and Ottoman Women: A Social and Political History (Bloomsbury/I. B. Tauris, 2023). She mostly deals with the hitherto underrepresented world of ordinary urbanites, in particular artisans, women, and slaves.