M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Agrarian economy and primary education in the Salonican countryside in the Hamidian Period (1876-1908) 
    Akçakaya, Zeynep, 1985- (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Beginning from the nineteenth century, the rulers of Ottoman Empire realized the importance of education in centralizing the administration. The Ottoman subjects would be educated in accordance with the basic principles ...
  • Akhtar: a discussion on the Persian language newspaper published in the Ottoman capital (1876-1896) 
    Lawrence, Tanya Elal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    By the second half ofthe nineteenth century Istanbul had become an important social and political environment for many Iranian activists and politicians who had been exiled from Iran. This community fonned a highly active ...
  • Everyday lives of Ottoman women: Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete (Newspaper for Ladies) (1895-1908) 
    Enis, Ayşe Zeren, 1986- (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    The creation of the concept of the Ottoman “citizenship” paved the way for a fresh understanding of “new identities” for the Ottoman subjects and the previously neglected parts of society such as women and children, gained ...
  • From Mudros to Lausanne: how Ahmed Emin’s perception of the 'other' changed? 
    Saçmalı, Ahmet Abdullah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This thesis explores an eminent liberal journalist, Ahmed Emin (Yalman)’s changing perceptions of the “other” in the armistice period (1918-1923). Throughout the work, how Ahmed Emin perceives non-Muslim Ottomans, non-Turkish ...
  • 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 ...
  • Proto-industrialization in the mid-nineteenth-century Balkan countryside: textile manufacturing in villages of Plovdiv 
    Öncel, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This study analyzes the rural manufacturing in the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Balkans. Woollen-textile manufacturing in three villages of Plovdiv; Karlova, Kalofer and Sopot are examined for this purpose. The thesis ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The 1736-39 War with Russia and Austria: a study in diplomacy and changing perceptions of the Ottoman Empire 
    Güngörürler, Selim. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This thesis focuses on the diplomatic relations and perceptions of power, taking the war of 1736 – 1739 between the Ottoman Empire and the Russo – Austrian alliance as the pivotal point. The war in question is generally ...
  • A new perception of Rome, Byzantium and Constantinople in Hezarfen Huseyin’s universal history 
    Bekar, Cumhur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    In this thesis I shall specifically examine the parts in Hezarfen Hüseyin’s universal history, about Rome and Byzantium. Hezarfen Hüseyin (d.1691) was one of the prominent new intellectuals of the seventeenth century. He ...
  • A critical study of Birgivi Mehmed Efendi’s (d.981/1573) works and their dissemination in manuscript form 
    Kaylı, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study examines how one of the most influential and controversial Ottoman scholars of all time, Birgivi Mehmed Efendi (929-981 / 1523-1573), was perceived and received by other Ottoman readers and writers in the centuries ...
  • Xinjiang between the globes: The Ottomans in the making of modern Xinjiang 
    Kuzuoğlu, Uluğ. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis examines the period from the 1860s to 1934 in disclosing the Ottoman, and later the Turkish, influence in Xinjiang. In doing so, this study has two main purposes. The first one is to use the nascent “global ...
  • 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 ...
  • Salonika in the late Ottoman Era :|(late 19th and early 20th century) 
    Aktsoglou, Iakovos J. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1991., 1991.)
  • Rethinking Young Turk Revolution :|Manaki Brothers still and moving images 
    Özen, Saadet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Yanaki Manaki (1878-1954) and Milton Manaki (1882-1964) are regarded as the pioneers of the Balkan cinema who built a collection composed of 17583 photographs and 2477,2 meters of moving images preserved today at the ...
  • 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 ...

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