Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • Social group interactions in the fourth century BC Athens 
    Akgül, Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The focus of this study is social group interactions in the context of Athenian society during the fourth-century BC. Rather than focusing on social order proposed by the laws, this thesis analyzes the relationships and ...
  • The memory of Nicaean rule in early Palaiologan texts as a means of Kaiserkritik and propaganda 
    Gül, Kevser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyzes the use of the name and memory of the Nicaean rule as a means of opposition and criticism after the usurpation of the throne by Michael VIII Palaiologos. The thesis claims that following the usurpation ...
  • Cypro-cilician painted pottery of Tarsus-Gözlükule :|understanding local ceramic production technology during the iron age 
    Mutlu, Zerrin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis aims to understand the development of Cypro-Cilician painted pottery of Tarsus-Gözlükule. It discusses how this pottery type developed and what the changes and continuities in its production are during the ...
  • Clothing habits and regulations in the Ottoman Empire (1703-1839) 
    Argıt, Betül İpşirli. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis is an attempt to present the account of clothing habits and clotllliig regulations of the Ottoman Empire mainly in the eighteenth century as far as the primary sources allow. In the eighteenth century the speed ...
  • Urban borders and socio-spatial dynamics in 16th century Istanbul :|the Koca Mustafa Pasha district 
    Silahtar Subaşı, Ayşe Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis deals with the concept of the urban border in the context of the early modern Ottoman capital city of Constantinople. First defining the terms like city and nahiye, the research moves on to its case study, ...
  • The fighting races of the orient :|German orientalism and imperial discourses in postwar memory 
    Hillman, Christian. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In this thesis, through the deconstruction of the memoirs of two German military officers who served in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, I argue that it becomes possible to view these life-narratives in a new ...
  • The social and economic transformation of Mush region between 1865 and 1890 
    Çakıl, Evren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This study investigates the ethnic conflict through land, reforms, and migration. The central government, after the Tanzimat period, eliminated the Aladdinpaşazadelis who owned the yurtluk-ocaklık lands in the Muş region. ...
  • The Crimean Khanate and the closure of the Black Sea frontier (1699-1730) 
    Aldoğan, Metehan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    At the turn of the eighteenth century, the European states that agreed to the Karlowitz (1699) and Istanbul (1700) Treaties forced the Ottoman Empire to accept the transformation of their northern and northwestern frontiers ...
  • Interpreting gender in Turkish archaeology and ancient history :|a critical discourse analysis 
    Yeniler, Yılmaz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Archeology and history, like all scientific disciplines, construct and communicate their scholarship through language. The discourses produced by these disciplines do not operate only within the boundaries of the academy, ...
  • Maintaining order on stage :|criminalizing performing arts in Late Ottoman Istanbul (1878 - 1908) 
    Özözer, Defne. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the Ottoman State’s criminal approach towards performing arts in Istanbul between 1878 and 1908. The main goal is to understand and analyze the reasons for criminalization. Exploring the different ...
  • Public space and memory in late antique Byzantium 
    Gezgin, Egemen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the transformation of the public space in late antique Byzantium from the perspective of identity and memory studies. The process of destruction, removal, and/or Christianization of historically ...
  • Spiritual kinship in middle and late Byzantine hagiographic sources 
    Kılıç, Seyhun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The thesis investigates the concept of spiritual kinship through middle and late Byzantine hagiographic sources. It groups the focus of study into two parts: the communal and the personal. In order to grasp the communal ...
  • Islamist political activism and education volunteerism :|a local ulema movement in the late Ottoman Konya, 1909-1921 
    Taşkın, Süleyman. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis focuses on a certain conservative group from ulema and Nakshi Khalidi sufis led by a particular Sheikh family in the Late Ottoman city of Konya. It tries to explain how could a traditional Sufi order turn to ...
  • Credit, creditors, and moneylending in late Byzantine Constantinople 
    Göndiken, Özgür. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyzes the operations of Byzantine moneylenders and their relations with their debtors from the 6th to the 15th century, with a special focus on the 14th century. By examining the credit transactions in the ...
  • The abolition of the Janissary army and its reflections 
    Turhan, Fatma Sel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This study alms to find, within a descriptive and analytical framework, academically relevant answers to the questions, why and how the main military corps of the Ottoman Empire was destroyed, and what were its effects. ...
  • A young Turk journal: |Terakki 
    Mert, Nuray, 1960- (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1985., 1985.)
  • Translation and the growth of juristic discourse in sixteenth-century Ottoman political writing 
    Erbil, Arif. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The sixteenth century was a scene of great political, social, intellectual, religious, bureaucratic, and military novelties and transformations in Eurasia. The Ottoman Empire was no exception. On the contrary, Ottomans ...
  • Life and works of Marius Michel in nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Nalbant, Emine Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis deals with the life and career of Marius Michel, who led the lighthouse construction movements in the late Ottoman period. The need for infrastructure to support global mobility such as ports, warehouses, ...
  • Nefsü’l-Emr literature and its meaning for early modern Ottoman society 
    Yerebakan, Hakan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis is a contextual study of nefsü’l-emrnâmes, a group of humorous texts that inventory and curse a wide variety of infringers of social, moral, and religious norms and hierarchies in the early modern Ottoman ...
  • Resistance in everyday life and the performativity of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria (1946–1989) 
    Ciddi, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the passive and mild resistance developed by the Muslim Turkish minority, who lived in Bulgaria during the period of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, against assimilation policies, on the basis of ...