Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • The founding of the İzmir Museum: a preliminary narrative based on Aziz Ogan’s archive 
    Kurt, Selvihan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    Museums are always very significant elements in construction of identity. During the formation of the nation-states after World War I museums were used very functionally in making of national identity. During the early ...
  • The mausoleum of Qilich Arslan II in Konya 
    Alikperova, Zarifa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    On the ‘Ala al-Din Hill in the city of Konya prominently stands a large imposing tomb tower with a conical dome. It is the mausoleum of Qilich Arslan II, the fifth Seljuk sultan of Rum (r. 1156-92), whose reign witnessed ...
  • Tanzimat era Ottoman administration in mount Lebanon (1840-1868) 
    Topaloğlu, Bekir Sadık. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis aims to investigate the policies developed by the Ottoman bureaucracy concerning the administration of the region of Mount Lebanon during the Tanzimat period. Located in the Syrian Littoral, Mount Lebanon had ...
  • Insanity in the reign of Abdiilhamid II (1876-1909) 
    Belli, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study tried to identify the status of insane in the mind of the state during the Abdiilhamid II's reign. The main issue of this study is the contradiction between the position of the insane and insanity in the Abdiilhamid ...
  • Being an Armenian in Anatolia: narratives of loss and recuperation 
    Özden, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis, which is based on an oral history research with Armenians who have migrated from Anatolia to Istanbul in the last few decades, investigates the formation of Armenian identity in the present. As there are no ...
  • Depiction of the enemy: Ottoman propaganda books in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 
    Yolcu, Cengiz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The loss of the Rumelia in the Balkan Wars was perceived as a catastrophe by the Ottomans. Thousands of people lost their homelands and immigrated to Anatolia after overwhelming military defeat. Various actions such as ...
  • The classification of the sciences in Nevʽī Efendi’s Netāyicüʽl Fünun- An Attempt at Contextualization 
    Akbulut, Didar Ayşe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis examines Nevʽī Efendi’s (d. 1007/1595) Turkish treatise Netāyicü l Fün n e e ā inü l- üt n (The Results of the Sciences and the Graces of Texts) in its historical and contemporary intellectual context. Firstly ...
  • From sufi movement to statehood: the Mahdi uprising in the Ottoman Sudan, 1881-1885 
    Koçyiğit, Ömer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis examines the four year rebellion period of the Mahdi movement started by the Sudanese Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah in 1881, and lasting until the state period, which began with his capturing Khartoum in ...
  • The aftermath of the deportation: the Armenian population after the great war and the Jamanak daily 
    Şekeryan, Ari. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of this thesis is to explore what the Ottoman Armenians had experienced after the forced deportation which was ordered by the Ottoman government. In recent historiography, the vast majority of the academic studies ...
  • Production and trade of opium in the Ottoman Empire, 1828-1838 
    Matsui, Masako. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    Opium was a product which dramatically changed Chinese history in the nineteenth century. Twice it caused war between Britain and the Qing Dynasty and forced the latter to sign the free trade treaty. The British exploitation ...
  • The Hagia Sophia mausoleums 
    Gürkan, Ayşegül Damla. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This study examines the dynastic mausoleums constructed in the courtyard of the Hagia Sophia complex between 1574 and 1639 within the context of the Ottoman architectural culture in general and, of the cultural and political ...
  • Rural economy and vakıf finances in sixteenth-century Anatolia: a study on Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Vakfı in Bursa, 1558-1591 
    Üzümçeker, Ramiz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This study analyzes the dynamics of sixteenth-century economic growth and the following crisis at the end of the century in Anatolia as reflected in the finances of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Vakfı in Bursa. The main resource ...
  • Immorality, misbehavior and transgression: the ‘Unorthodox’ Greeks of Pera and Galata in the late Ottoman Empire 
    Payır, Zekiye Sada. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The intensive efforts of the Ottoman Greek leaders to introduce schools, churches and societies in Istanbul, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century, bear the signs of a move towards a more tight-knit ...
  • ''CanIı TarihIer": a discourse analysis of the memoirs of Young Turks (1908-1923) 
    Coşkuntuna, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis is an attempt at understanding the frame of mind that the members of the Committee of Union and Progress carried with them throughout the Revolution of 1908 and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. It is ...
  • Seeking redress at the Signoria: Ottoman merchants in dispute with the Republic of Venice in the early modern era 
    Stefini, Tommaso. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    In the early modern era the Republic of Venice hosted a vast cosmopolitan community of merchants from the Ottoman Empire. It was probably the most important place of Ottoman commercial deployment in Western Europe. While ...
  • A study in commercial life and practices in Istanbul at the turn of the century :|the textile market 
    Tanatar-Baruh, Lorans. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1993., 1993.)
    This sectorial based market study, analyzes the commercial life in Istanbul at the turn of our century. In other words, the thesis concentrates on merchants and workers dealing with international trade, market mechanisms, ...
  • The provincial aristocracy in Byzantine Asia minor (1081-1261 ) 
    Öztürk, Meriç T.. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The aim of this thesis is to investigate the power basis of the provincial aristocracy in Byzantine Asia Minor between 1081 and 1261. Following an introductory chapter and another chapter setting the historical background, ...
  • The letters of George-Gennadios scholarios to members of the ruling elite in fifteenth-century Peloponnese: introduction, translation, and commentary 
    Kartal, Abdulkerim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    George-Gennadios Scholarios (ca. 1400-ca. 1472) is a late Byzantine intellectual and a man of religion. He was born a Byzantine and died an Ottoman, which highlights his witnessing a crucial transition period. Scholarios ...
  • Dengbêjî tradition among Kurdish-Kurmanj communities: narrative and performance during late nineteenth and twentieth centuries 
    Çaçan, Serhat Resul. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis studies the dengbêjî tradition and kilams, the musical storytelling of Kurdish-Kurmanjee minstrels, mainly in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey, and Western Armenia. In the thesis, dengbêjî is classified as a ...
  • Middle bronze age settlement in Tarsus-Gözlükule: a re-evaluation of stratigraphy and analysis of use of space 
    Güldüren, Ali. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This thesis re-evaluates the Middle Bronze Age settlement remains at Tarsus-Gözlükule, a multi-period mound located in the western part of the Cilician plain. The stratigraphy of the period is investigated by comparing ...