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  • The exhortations of George Trapezuntios and Cardinal Bessarion against the Ottomans :|Identities and representations 
    Avila, Agustin Rafael. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    During the last years of the Byzantine Empire and after its collapse, some Greek intellectuals became deeply concerned with the international affairs and the fate of their nation, and assumed the task of writing crusading ...
  • The fatwa collection of an Ottoman provincial mufti, Vani Mehmed Efendi (d. 1685) 
    Köse, Ömer Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study analyzes Vani Mehmed Efendi’s fatwa collection, which was compiled by Vani himself following his appointment as the mufti of Erzurum in 1657. The collection is a typical example of Ottoman provincial fatwa ...
  • 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 formation of the alawite state through demarcation lines during the French mandate for Syria 
    Erdoğan, Egecan (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis aims to present a cross-section on the political-social relations of the mandate period, by considering an administrative border change that takes place between the State of Damascus and Alawite State in Syria, ...
  • 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 German involvement in Ottoman economic development: banking, railways and other investments, 1888-1914 
    Özen, Halil Ege. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Throughout the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was in a process of integration into the world economy. This thesis endeavored to set the historical context, in which Germany became a capitalist European power and ...
  • The Greek occupation of İzmir and protest meetings in İstanbul 15 May 1919 – 13 January 1920 
    Erzurum, Şirin Güneşer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The basic goal of this thesis is to analyse the initial reaction of the Ottoman public towards the occupation of İzmir by the Greek forces as reflected in the Ottoman press with a special focus on the eight protest gatherings ...
  • 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 ...
  • The hesychast controversy : a practice and attitude 
    Çelikel, Mahir Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The Hesychast controversy in the Late Byzantine period may be perceived as one of the last segments of the ongoing debate between outer wisdom, based on pagan philosophy, and inner wisdom, the teachings of Christianity. ...
  • The history of architectural restoration in Turkey: |from 1869 to the present times 
    Türay, Esen. (Thesis (M.A. - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1985., 1985.)
    With the Tanzimat Period, efforts of approaching the West, not only in terms of economics but also in terms of cultural aspects, are observed. And as a result of this, the interest of Europeans in antiquities form the ...
  • The history of Yedikule and its place in military architecture 
    Koca-Eğrikavuk, Oya. (Thesis (M.A)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
  • The image of western women in Ahmed Midhat's discourse on westernization 
    Cihan, Fatma Betül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    The aim of this thesis is to explore the role of Ahmed Midhat in the process of the identity formation of late nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It will be claimed that one of the means employed in that endeavor was ...
  • The impact of the exchange of populations on the social and economic life of the city of Adana 
    Çomu, Aslı Emine. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This study investigates a particular phenomenon, the Exchange of Populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923 and its impact on the social and economic life of the city of Adana. It proposes the comparison of the economic ...
  • The Imperial bî‘at ceremonies in the Ottoman Empire: their formation and transformation until the eighteenth century 
    Erdoğan, Sinem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study examines the formation and transformation of the Ottoman bî‘at ceremonies (ceremony of oath of allegiance) within the context of Ottoman political culture roughly between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth ...
  • The interpretation of Turkish movements into Anatolia during the eleventh and twelfth centuries 
    Woodall, G. Carole. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    The entrance of the Turks into Anatolia in the eleventh century marked the beginning of a cultural transformation process which lasted until the fifteenth century, coinciding with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and ...
  • The issue of education in Late Ottoman women's periodicals (1869-1895) 
    Bozkurt, Ayşe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis examines late Ottoman women̕s periodicals (1869-1895) and triesto reveal what kind of discourses these periodicals created and how women receivedthem. It looks at male writers who were the first to publish ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Life of Saint Auxentios: an introduction, translation and commentary 
    Tanrıyar, Kıvanç. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aims to make a contribution to the field of Byzantine hagiography with a translation from Greek into English of the oldest surviving version of the Life of Saint Auxentios dating from the late fifth century. No ...
  • 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 ...
  • The medicinal use and commodification of leeches in the late Ottoman Empire 
    Baran, Ayşe Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis examines more than three hundred trade related leech documents found among the nineteenth century Ottoman archives. These documents aggregate roughly between 1840 and 1870 and are filed in various important ...

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