Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Kafadar, Cemal"
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Between the Pen and the Fields: Books on Farming, Changing Land Regimes, and Urban Agriculture in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean Ca. 1500-1700
Sopov, Aleksandar (2016-09-23)This dissertation goes “between the pen and the fields” in that it explores the relationship between the Ottoman discourse on farming as reflected in manuscripts, and the material and economic realities of farming shown ... -
Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Quinn, Meredith Moss (2016-05-17)This study contributes to the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern Middle East by analyzing how books were produced and circulated, and which audiences existed for various types of books in the Ottoman ... -
"Caught in a Whirlwind:" Painting in Baghdad in the Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Centuries
Taner, Melis (2016-05-12)Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the province of Baghdad changed hands between the Aq Qoyunlu Turkmen tribal confederation, the Safavids and the Ottomans. From the last decade of the sixteenth to the ... -
Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, and Property Allocation Practices in Istanbul, 1755-1840
Kayhan Elbirlik, Leyla (2013-09-30)This dissertation studies the construction of the marital bond and its dissolution with respect to the normative stipulations of the shari'a, social and moral constructions, and the cultural formations during late-eighteenth ... -
Political Literacy and the Politics of Eloquence: Ottoman Scribal Community in the Seventeenth Century
Tusalp, Ekin Emine (2014-02-25)In 1703, the chief scribe (reisü'l-küttab) Rami Mehmed Efendi (d. 1708) was appointed as the grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire. In scholarship, Rami Mehmed epitomizes the transition in the political cadres from the people ... -
Self and Other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals
Akisik, Aslihan (2013-09-30)The capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman armies of Mehmed II in 1453 was a cataclysmic event that reverberated throughout Renaissance Europe. This event intensified the exodus of Byzantines to Italy and beyond and they ... -
Teachers of the Public, Advisors to the Sultan: Preachers and the Rise of a Political Public Sphere in Early Modern Istanbul (1600-1675)
Gurbuzel, Sumeyra A. (2016-05-13)This dissertation focuses on preachers as key actors in the rise of a political public sphere in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Recently, literature on the political importance of corporate bodies and voluntary associations ...