Browsing M.A. Theses by Title

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  • Istanbul wine-taverns as public places in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 
    Yavuzer, Gamze. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis is on the roles of wine-taverns as public places in Istanbul during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines the place of wine-taverns in the larger context of public places and their functions in ...
  • İlm-i nücûm and its role in the Ottoman court during the eighteenth century 
    Kırkoğlu, Remzi Hakan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines ilm-i nücûm (astrology) and its practice in the context of Ottoman court dynamics, particularly focusing on the reign of Mustafa III (1757- 1774). With roots in earlier Islamicate cultures, practice ...
  • İNCİ (Yeni) magazine(1919-1923): the feminine actuality during the occupational period 
    Özkal, Elçin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis deals with questions related to Ottoman women’s movement, the role of the press in the dissemination of the intellectual’s ideas and ideals about newly transforming Ottoman society, and offers a perception of ...
  • İntibâh or Hâb-ı Gaflet: Âşûr Yûsuf, Naûm Fâik and the Ottoman Süryânî 
    Trigona-Harany, Benjamin Oliver Sunny. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis explores some of the misconceptions pertaining to the Ottoman Süryânî community of the pre-World War I era, using a critique of the present-day historiography as the context for the discussion. The works of two ...
  • İsmail Hakkı Bursevi and the politics of balance 
    Tabur, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis examines the religio-political commentary of a late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Celveti sheikh, İsmail Hakkı Bursevi, who operated in the lands of the Ottoman Empire. The main focus is on the ...
  • Janissary and Samurai: early modern warrior classes and religion 
    Küçükyalçın, Erdal. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    In 1826, a longheld Ottoman military institution, the Hearth of Janissaries was abolished, many of the janissaries were killed others were persecuted. Bektashi Order was also affected by this incident called “Vaka-i Hayriyye” ...
  • Jewish converts refute Judaism: Conversions and religious polemic in the late fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Ağlar, Şaban. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis consists of a textual and contextual analysis of two Ottoman polemical treatises directed against Judaism in the time of Bayezid II. In their works, the author of Risāla al-hādiya, Abd al-Salam, and the author ...
  • Jewish deputies in the Ottoman parliament, (1908-1918) 
    Kayaalp, Semiha. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis aims to examine the political stance of Jewish deputies (Emanuel Karasu, Nesim Masliyah, Alber Vitali Feraci and Ezakiel Sason) elected to Ottoman Parliament, Osmanlı Meclis-i Mebusanı, in the Second Constitutional ...
  • Kadın: A young Turk magazine in the second constitutional period (1908-1909) 
    Kılıç, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    The Second Constitution intellectuals aimed to change not only the state but also the society. The Committee of Union and Progress saw women as the key to this change and decided to increase the public appearance of women ...
  • Küçük Ayasofya and the foundation of Babüssaade Ağası Hüseyin Ağa 
    Polat, İrem Gündüz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis examines a patron, Hüseyin Ağa (d. 1508), who was serving as the kapu ağa (the gatekeeper eunuch of the palace) during the reign of Bayezid II, and the foundation he established at the Byzantine church of Sts. ...
  • Labour and occupation during the early republican era: Meslek magazine 1924-1925 
    Salgut, Ebru Soytemel. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis examines the early Republican Era and evaluates the discussions about economic policies and working life between 1920s and 1930s within the context of the Meslek magazine published between 1924-1925. Following ...
  • Legal modernization in the early Meiji period and the Japanese research on the mixed courts of Egypt 
    Karakaya, Emir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    With the development of the concept of international law into domination tool in the hands of the European powers, non-European states such as Japan and the Ottoman Empire signed commercial treaties that granted extraterritorial ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs: An American missionary wife in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Korkmaz, Melisa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the little known activities and writings of Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs, a missionary wife operating under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), during her active years from ...
  • Merchants and the state in Turkey-from Empire to Republic 
    Karaömerlioğlu, M. Asım. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Socials Sciences, 1992., 1992.)
    This thes is covers the pIace of merchants and the ir world view in the transition period from Empire to Republic in Turkey. Merchants functioned as the most important link with the world economy. In that sense, merchants ...
  • 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 ...
  • Migration and memory: assyrian identity in Merdin Kerboran/Dargeçit 
    Aras, Ramazan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This thesis attempts to analyze the personal narratives and the life stories of Assyrians who lived and Kurdish people living in Kerboran/Dargeçit, Mardin. Focusing on the period between 1910-1980, it examines the migration, ...
  • Mind in metal :|contextualizing late bronze age metal artifacts from Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey 
    Koumari, Marta. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis aims to re-present the metal artifacts from the Late Bronze Age levels of Tarsus-Gözlükule through a contextual approach. These artifacts were assiduously excavated, examined and published by Hetty Goldman and ...
  • More than mere polemic: The adventure of the Risālah-i Ḥusniyah in the Safavid, Ottoman and Indian lands 
    Ünal, Yusuf. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis explores the historical adventure of a Shī‘ī polemical work, Risālah-i Ḥusniyah, which appeared in Persian in Safavid Iran probably in the sixteenth century when the conversion of Iranian populace from Sunnīsm ...

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