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World literature decentered: Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
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Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, film, and national discourse
(Duke University Press, 2022-07)N/A -
Mad patriots: Militarized masculinities and nation- building in contemporary Turkish novels
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Nationalist discourse in Turkey is replete with metaphors of militarism, and is built on hierarchies of ethnicity, class, and, of course, gender. -
Ottoman market regulation and inspection in the early modern period
(Koç Üniversitesi Suna & İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (AKMED), 2021)This article looks at Ottoman market regulation policies and practices, by highlighting some turning points in their evolution in the early modern period. The task of the Ottoman market inspector evolved to focus largely ... -
A distant reading of the Ottoman/Turkish serial novel tradition (1831–1908)
(Springer Nature, 2019)The emergence and spread of the Turkish press and the birth of the Ottoman Turkish novel occurred simultaneously in the Ottoman Empire, when the press and the novel largely sustained each other. Most of the early Turkish ... -
Bakmak ama görmemek: Türkiye'de kadın yazarların profili
(Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları Merkezi, 2012)Bu makale, edebiyat sosyolojisi alanına giren ve Türkiye deki edebiyatçı kadınların profilini ortaya çıkartmayı amaçlayan bir araştırma projesinin ürünüdür. Kadın yazarların eğitim durumları, meslekleri, babalarının ... -
Urban music and entrepreneurship: beats, rhymes and young people’s enterprise
(SAGE Journals, 2018-03-01)N/A -
Erken dönem Osmanlı esnaf teşkilatının nitelikleri üzerine düşünceler
(Gaye Kitabevi, 2018-05-01)Bu bölümde I. Selim dönemi Bursa esnaf teşkilatı incelenmektedir. Osmanlı esnaf teşkilatının hiyerarşik yapısının ve kethüda, yiğitbaşı gibi görevlilerinin I. Selim döneminde ortaya çıkmaya başladığı tespit edilmektedir. -
Boza consumption in early-modern Istanbul as an energy drink and a mood-altering substance
(Sakarya Üniversitesi, 2016-04-01)The consumption of substances such as coffee is known to have gained popularity in the early-modern period along with increased urbanization and the proliferation of public places such as coffeehouses, and bathhouses in ... -
Suggestions on the social meaning and functions of akhi hospices in medieval anatolia
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-01-01)The Islamic tradition of futuwwa (Turk. futuvvet), or ethical codes, received a certain degree of political legitimacy when the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah (r. 1180–1225) admitted it to courtly life. Soon after, ... -
Tracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court records
(Berghahn Books, 2015-02-01)This chapter addresses the fundamental, yet unanswered, question of when and how formal hierarchically organized guilds appeared in Ottoman towns. In doing so, 15th century Bursa court records are scrutinized. -
From competitive to multidirectional memory: a literary tool for comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Recent research shows that Turkish society is very polarized and that different identities and ideological perspectives are in constant struggle with each other. In a multicultural society such as Turkey’s, the question ... -
Transcendental ethics
(Springer, 2011)Our ontological, epistemological and metaphysical point of view is a very important determinant of how we conceive ethics and the possibility of ethical discourse. Kant, G.E. Moore and Wittgenstein had a quite eloquent ... -
Issues of ideology and identity in Turkish literature during the Cold War
(2013)In the Cold War era, the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkey was dominated by efforts of democratization and liberalization, economic growth and instability, intellectual and ... -
Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
(Wiley, 2012-09)My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class ... -
Sleepwalking in İstanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpınar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish ...
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