Fragile alliances in the Ottoman East: the Heyderan Tribe and the empire, 1820 - 1929

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buir.advisorÖzel, Oktay
dc.contributor.authorÇiftçi, Erdal
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T06:01:29Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T06:01:29Z
dc.date.copyright2018-04
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.date.submitted2018-04-20
dc.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.): Bilkent University, Department of History, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2018.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 392-409).en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation discusses how tribal agency impacted the eastern margins of the empire in terms of tribe-empire relations during the nineteenth century. The Heyderan, a confederative form of tribal social organization, acts as a case study, used to explore and analyze how local, provincial and imperial agencies confronted the real political situation. This study follows the transformation of the Ottoman East from a de-centralized to a centralized structure, until the emergence of the modern nation-state. During the long nineteenth century, this study argues that the tribes and the empire were separate agencies, and that the two bargained in order to expand their power at the expense of the other. As a separate imagined community, the Heyderan were not passive and dependant subjects, but rather, enacted their own political and economic agendas under a separate tribal collective identity. Relations between local and imperial agencies were dynamic and fragile, but tribe and empire often supported each other and became allies who benefited from shared missions. Therefore, politics in the Ottoman East did not develop through a top-down implementation of the imperial agenda, but rather in combination with the bottom-up responses and agency of the local Kurdish tribes. Finally, rather than completing this study in July of 1908 with the collapse of the last Ottoman Sultan, this thesis concludes by analyzing the changes in the region until 1929, when the tribe lost its political-military power, and paramount Heyderan tribal leader, Hüseyin Pasha, due to the emergence of the modern nation-state.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Erdal Çiftçi.en_US
dc.format.extentxvii, 413 leaves : facsimilies ; 30 cmen_US
dc.identifier.itemidB156967
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/46654
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBorderlanden_US
dc.subjectFrontieren_US
dc.subjectHeyderan Tribeen_US
dc.subjectOttoman Easten_US
dc.subjectOttoman Empireen_US
dc.titleFragile alliances in the Ottoman East: the Heyderan Tribe and the empire, 1820 - 1929en_US
dc.title.alternativeOsmanlı Doğusunda kırılgan ittifaklar: Heyderan Aşireti ve imparatorluk, 1820 - 1929en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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