M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • The twin books for two Ottoman Princesses :|an examination on the Mataāli'ü's-saʻāde manuscripts (1582) 
    Yıldırım, Özge Nur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The sultanate of Murād III (1574-1595) was an era of artistic advancement in terms of book production. The Mataāliʻü’s-saʻāde (Paris BnF Suppl. Turc 242 & New York Morgan M. 788), as a compendium that includes astrology, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • An attempt at confessionalization and social disciplining in the reign of Mustafa II (1695-1703) 
    Göcen, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    The central focus of this thesis is a set of Mühimme orders from the reign of Mustafa II. These orders concerned teaching basic religious knowledge to Muslim subjects, examining the creedal knowledge of religious personnel ...
  • The place of waqfs in the early modern agrarian and urban history of Ottoman Cyprus 
    Soydar, Sefer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis intends to analyze the social and economic activities of waqf institutions in early modern Ottoman Cyprus. This study does not consider waqfs to have been purely pious foundations. In addition, waqfs were a ...
  • Continuity and change in the culinary culture of the Ottoman palace in the 19th century 
    Samancı, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This study undertook an introductory research about Ottoman culinary culture. In particular, the study sought to discover the changing and continuing characteristics of the Ottoman palace cuisine during the 19th century. ...
  • The Patria of Hesychios of Miletos :|a literary performance 
    Maclennan, Pırıl Us. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines Hesychios of Miletos’s late antique Patria of Constantinople within a framework of tools and concepts developed within literary studies, literary criticism, and memory studies. Modern scholarship has ...
  • Carnival celebrations in Istanbul :|the changing perception and experience of Apokries and Baklahorani 
    Vardar, Naz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the transformation in the perception and experience of the carnival celebrations in Istanbul during the late Ottoman and Republican era. I attempt to problematize the nostalgia and revitalization of ...
  • Shifting narratives of universal histories in the Ottoman Empire :|from the “Divine” to the “Scientific” 
    Akay, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis attempts to pursue the changes in the Ottoman world histories by focusing on the divine narratives from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. In Chapter 2, the functions of the divine ...

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