Browsing by Keywords "Islam"
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Bipolar disorder : "The West and the Rest"
(Bilkent University, 2002)he current ‘War on Terror’ has revitalized the language of friends and enemies, us and them, good and evil. The whole world has been forced to choose sides: are you with the terrorists or are you with the ‘freedom loving ... -
The changing nature of Islamism in Turkey : a comparison of Erbakan and Erdoğan
(Bilkent University, 2002)The present study discusses the impact of the general change with the rise of new tendencies in Turkish politics on Islamist groups. The main purpose in writing this thesis is that of investigating the differences and ... -
Constructing and representing the Islamic consumer in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)This study looks at how marketers in Turkey construct and represent tesettürlü consumers (women wearing Islamically inspired forms of covered dress) in advertising and other commercial imagery, and how these representations ... -
A different story of secularism: the censorship of religion in turkish films of the 1960s and early 1970s
(SAGE, 2012)This article extends the discussion of Turkish secularism from political history to cultural history. It examines censorship of religious elements in Turkish films of the 1960s and early 1970s based on the reports of the ... -
Fethullah Gülen’s understanding of women’s rights in Islam: a critical reappraisal
(Routledge, 2017)This article examines the gender views of Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen, a citizen of Turkey who has not only risen to global prominence since the early-2000s, but also gained a reputation for having ‘progressive’ views ... -
Formation and representation of interests in Turkish political economy : the case of MÜSİAD (Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association)
(Bilkent University, 2002)This thesis examines the case of Müstakil Sanayici ve İşadamları DerneğiMÜSİAD [Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association] to evaluate the formation and representation of interests within transformation ... -
From informal housing to apartment housing: exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey
(Routledge, 2018)This article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of ... -
The image of the other in the fifteenth-century Christian and Muslim hagiographies
(Bilkent University, 2008)In the thesis we have aimed to examine the image of the other in fifteenthcentury Ottoman history. With this aim in mind, we have carried out our research focusing on the analysis of the image of the other both within ... -
Imagining the Middle East: the state, nationalism and regional international society
(Bristol University Press, 2015-07-24)The Middle East is commonly perceived as a zone of cultural and political differences within the global international society. Imagining the Middle East as a ‘unique’ region is not a new idea, but relocating this conception ... -
The implementation of Ottoman religious policies in Crete 1645-1735 : men of faith as actors in the kadı court
(Bilkent University, 2005)The arrival of the Ottomans in the first half of the seventeenth century was marked by a twofold religious policy on the island: The reestablishment of the Orthodox hierarchy and the establishment of Islam. The reestablishment ... -
Islam and democratization in Turkey: secularism and trust in a divided society
(Routledge, 2009)The history of Turkish modernization has been inextricably linked with the question of secularism. From the advent of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Islam was held responsible for the underdevelopment and eventual demise ... -
Islam in Albanian lands during the first two centuries of the Ottoman rule
(Bilkent University, 2003)This dissertation provides a detailed picture of the religious situation in Albanian lands before the Ottoman conquest and analyzes the conditions upon the establishment of Ottoman rule and the initial stages of ... -
Islamic encounters in consumption and marketing
(SAGE, 2013-12)In recent years, Islam has become highly visible in media, politics, and the marketplace. The increasing popular and academic attention to Islam is partly driven by the events of 9/11 and the related imperative to ‘‘better’’ ... -
“Islands in the stream”: toward a new history of the large islands of the Byzantine Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages ca.600-ca.800
(Routledge, 2018)Byzantine historiography has often regarded the large Mediterranean islands (Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics) as mere peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland-defined as the coupling of two different ... -
Medeni ya da müslüman :popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak
(Bilkent University, 2006)Popular romance narratives are usually neglected and regarded as a part of “low literature” in the literary discussions of Republican period. This study claims that these novels, in fact, provide significant data in the ... -
Nationalism and Islam in Cold War Turkey, 1944-69
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Our current knowledge on the history of Turkish nationalism during the Cold War is a blend of facts and myths. One of those myths is the argument that the Turks developed a special relationship with Islam following their ... -
Özal's politics with special reference to religion
(Bilkent University, 1997)Present thesis aims to analyze ÖzaTs politics while taking his special reference to religion into consideration. About Özal's politics, domestic and international politics, the Southeast problem, economy and religion ... -
The political economy of Kulturkampf: evidence from imperial Prussia and republican Turkey
(Springer New York LLC, 2018)This paper analyzes the political incentives of Kulturkampf and the implementation of secularization in imperial Prussia and republican Turkey. A game-theoretic model defining Kulturkampf as a static game between priests ... -
Political manhood in 2000's Turkey : representations of different masculinities in politics
(Bilkent University, 2012)This dissertation mainly questions the constructions of different masculinities in politics in Turkey. It re-reads the different representations of political manhood with reference to the AKP, the CHP and the MHP between ... -
Religious and demographic development in the South-Western Rhodope Mountains in the second half of the fifteenth century : a case study of the Tahrir register of 1478
(Bilkent University, 2012)The spread of Islam into non-Muslim territories has always followed their conquest by some expanding Islamic polity. Ottoman military expansion into the Balkans was followed by the establishment of a new administrative ...
