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The administrative, economic and social relations of Sofia in the 18th century: an essay of the spatial analysis
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)In this thesis, Sofia which was the pasha sandjaghi of the Rumelian Eyalet in the 18th century is discussed. The administrative, social and economic relations of Sofia are studied within the context of spatial analysis. ... -
An analysis study on the implementations of gedik, esham and muzara’a
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis examines there economic practices (gedik, esham and muzara’a) that emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the modern period (18th and 19th centuries) and the relationship between them. This study claims that these ... -
An Ayan family in Uşak: Paşaoğlullari hanedani
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The purpose of this research is to investigate the history of the Paşaoğulları family; a medium-scale local family that lived and flourished in Uşak in Western Anatolia. It can be said that investigating the history of ... -
The conditions and methods of the land travels of the Ottoman subjects during the pre-modern era
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)Traveling in the Ottoman Empire during the pre-modern times was challenging and dangerous for everyone, but much so for civilians. Furthermore, the central authority discouraged the mobility of civilians, and wanted them ... -
Dergâh-ı Abdal Musa : a heterodox dervish tekke between the state and the people
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis attempts to propose a hypothetical explanation to the reason of the noteworthy transformation in the relations between the heterodox tekkes and the Ottoman State. Since the foundation of the uc beylik at the ... -
Education, nationalism and gender in the young Turk Era, 1908-1918
(Bilkent University, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the education of Ottoman girls during the Second Constitutional Era, and to examine the “ideal female citizen” model, which was described in the primary and secondary school textbooks. ... -
From height to crisis: The last half century of Nizâm-i Kadîm and Ottoman society as seen by the Gazette de France, 1740-1787
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)This dissertation focuses on the period of 1740-1787 which was one of the last high points in the history of the Ottoman Empire. It uses the French monarchy’s official periodical, the Gazette de France, as its main source ... -
A gate to the emotional world of pre-modern Ottoman society: an attempt to write Ottoman history from “the inside out”
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)Beginning in the 1980’s, the research produced on various fields of knowledge including history, neuroscience, sociology, psychology and anthropology asserted that emotions are not only a product of biochemical but also ... -
A matter of belonging: place attachment of ordinary people in the 18th century Ottoman society
(Bilkent University, 2022-12)This dissertation is a quest to discover the bonds established between ordinary Ottoman people and places by engaging with the concept of place attachment, an instrument of environmental psychology. It seeks to answer how ... -
New inclinations towards land usufruct in the 18th century Anatolia
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This thesis attempts to investigate the changing features of 18th century Ottoman agricultural production in the context of commercialization. New emerging landowners, long-termed usufruct of arable lands and the sharecropping ... -
The notion of hassa soldiery and kul identity in the early Ottoman state – example of the janissary corps a comparative study
(Bilkent University, 2022-05)This study aims to reveal the conceptual origins of the notion of hassa soldiery and the idea of kul system in the early Ottoman state on the example of janissary corps by using the early Ottoman chronics, fourteenth and ... -
Ottoman corsairs in the Central Mediterranean and the slave trade in the 16th century
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)This thesis aims to analyze the Ottoman corsairs and their role in the slave trade in the 16th century Mediterranean, and it concentrates on the corsair activity around the central Mediterranean during Suleiman I's reign. ... -
The patriarch and the sultan : the struggle for authority and the quest for order in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 2011)In the eighteenth century, the Rum Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul underwent a series of changes that were the result of eighteenth-century economic and social developments in Ottoman society. This study investigates ... -
Reflections of an external world in the Ottoman mind : the production and transmission of knowledge in the 18th Ottoman society
(Bilkent University, 2011)This thesis attempts to investigate Ottoman “perception of knowledge”. The construction of collective perception of knowledge, various knowledge concepts, spaces for knowledge production, modes and channels of transmission ... -
The structural and functional characteristics of the ottoman city
(Bilkent University, 2015-01)This work is a two part inquiry into the nature of the Ottoman urban settlements in a certain context. In the first part a broad classification of three important functional and structural characteristics of the Ottoman ... -
The structural and functional characteristics of the ottoman city : an interpretation of the multifaceted urban relations
(Bilkent University, 2015)This work is a two part inquiry into the nature of the Ottoman urban settlements in a certain context. In the first part a broad classification of three important functional and structural characteristics of the Ottoman ... -
A study of pseudo-historical Ottoman narratives of the 17th–18th centuries: envisioning an imperial past and future in the Ottoman social imagination and memory
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)This dissertation focuses on a textual and contextual analysis of two previously unstudied sets of pseudo-historical narratives produced and reproduced in miscellanies and fascicles throughout the “post-classical” period ... -
A study over tax and relationship formed around taxation in the Ottoman Empire (16th-17th century)
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)This thesis inspects the relationship between ruling class and subject class during the early modern period of Ottoman Empire (16th-17th centuries). The study argues that ruling class who was entitled to collect taxes were ... -
Turmoil in the Crimean Khanate (1623-1628)
(Bilkent University, 2022-12)The objective of this study is to analyze the socio-political causes and effects of the turmoil in the Crimean Khanate (1623-1628) depending mainly on the Crimean Tatar, Ottoman, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and Persian ... -
Women and namus, as a regulative phenomenon, in early modern Ottoman society
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)In this thesis, the concept of namus (honor) as a regulative phenomenon in early modern Ottoman society and specifically for ordinary women are discussed. It focuses on which characteristic of women’s namus differed from ...
