G. D. Brockett

In recent decades scholars have debated intensely at which point the Ottoman Empire ended and modern Turkey emerged: is it possible to locate in history a moment when residents of Ottoman Anatolia and Thrace began to think of themselves not as subjects of an expansive, Islamic e…

This thesis addresses the emaciated state of early Turkish social history by means of an examination of the limited number of events that might be classified as collective Islamic "reaction." It locates these events in both their geographic and social contexts, and uses these as…