Browsing M.A. Theses by Title

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  • Ilyas Arabi's Risale-yi Istanbul :|perceptions of architecture and legend through a sixteenth-century Ottoman text 
    Yıldız, Turhan Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates the perception of Istanbul’s legendary past and Hagia Sophia by early modern Ottoman authors. In doing so, the main source of this study is a mid- 16th century text that is about the legends of ...
  • Images of time : analysis of stele of Vultures and Victory stele of Naram-Sin 
    Koçer, Azra Ruveyde. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Commemorative monuments were created in Mesopotamia for the first time. They were carved in relief and inscribed withs texts and recorded historical events with name of the ruler. This thesis investigates the connections ...
  • 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 ...
  • Imperial visions and narrations: |British imperialism in India and its reflections in literature 1857-1947 
    Göksel, Sema Emel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    This study attempts an analysis of novels written about the British India of the 1857-1947 era.The novels have been chosen according to their authors' personal experience in India and the times and themes of their concern. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Instrumentalization of music in the late Ottoman Empire: The case of the Teutonia 
    Akyoldaş, Ayşe Seren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis intends to perceive music as a medium being influenced by the political agenda of its epoch. In order to observe the use of music for political goals in the late Ottoman Empire, in the light of the archival ...
  • 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, ...
  • Into the wild: Ottoman photographic excursions to Libya at the turn of the twentieth century 
    Gürel, Günseli. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study investigates the Ottoman center’s conceptions and representations of the periphery, at the turn of the twentieth century as reflected in the representation of Libyan provinces of the empire. The main sources ...
  • 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 ...
  • Isolating the subject: cholera, control and sanitary discourse in the Istanbul International Sanitary Conference of 1866 
    Kılınç, Handan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This study aims at studying the process of Istanbul International Sanitary Conference of 1866, politic structure of the conference and the condition of the Ottoman Empire through this process. The third international ...
  • 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. ...

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