This is a study of state and society as both were articulated and negotiated in the Ottoman popular press, focusing on the cheap, illustrated serials produced for women and their families 1876-1909. These gazettes cut more deeply into non-elite society than has previously been s…
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This dissertation is about the process of cultural representation as traced through a close study of Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1744?-1822), a Muslim Albanian appointee of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over the virtual entirety of what is today mainland Greece. Whereas much post-"ori…
This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…
This dissertation studies specific features of the Ottoman administration of justice in Anatolia during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts within the framework of the Ottoman provin…
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, city views and topographic miniature paintings became a distinctive feature of luxury manuscript illustration in the Ottoman Empire. These images were part of an architectural vision of the Empire's cites—a vision that was cultivated…
This dissertation examines the interaction between the central Ottoman administration and locally powerful provincial political forces, and the outcome of this interaction on the manufacturers in the textile and copper sector in the urban center of Tokat in central northeastern …
The present dissertation is the first research, devoted exclusively to the Russian abolition of the slave trade in the Caucasus in the nineteenth century. It has shown that the Russian abolitionism was produced by a peculiar fusion of two separate streams of thought in Russian s…
This study examines the process of incorporation into the Russian Empire of the Western Georgian principality of Guria from early contacts to actual annexation. It uses Cyril Toumanoff's concept of dynasticism as the framework for explaining the earlier emergence of Guria as an …
The history of the ayans is the socio-economic history of the Ottoman state from the late sixteenth until the nineteenth century. The changes that were seen in revenue-raising and land tenure slowly led to a decentralization of state authority. As a result the local notables wer…
After a series of reversals in its wars with European powers during the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was forced to reevaluate its military technology and training. The realization that the West had outstripped the Muslim East in scientific and technological advancement…
This work is a parallel study of two different attempts to oppose Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe during the fifteenth century: George Castriota Scanderbeg in Albania and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented…
This dissertation contrasts the emergence of Jewish newspaper cultures in the Russian and Ottoman empires in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth century. To do so, it explores the first daily newspapers to be published in Yiddish and Judeo-Spanis…
Armenian villagers inhabited Musa Dagh, a mountain situated some 20 kilometers to the southwest of the biblical town of Antioch, from time immemorial. They would have been relegated to oblivion as an insignificant lot had Franz Werfel not immortalized their saga during the 1915 …
The dissertation examines why and how Alevism, a religious creed and tradition that had been kept esoteric and transmitted only orally at secret rituals ever since the persecution by the Ottoman State in the early 16th Century, suddenly and powerfully emerged in the late 1980s a…
Nationalism and national identity were alien concepts to the Ottoman Empire where the millet system classified individuals in terms of their confessional communities. In the Ottoman Balkans, the Greek-Orthodox millet was the dominant one. Under the authority of the Ecumenical Pa…
Over the centuries, the term feudalism has come to encompass a variety of definitions. This has led to numerous works concentrating on the subject of feudalism, with a majority of them focusing on western European feudalism. However, a definitive definition of feudalism that enc…
This dissertation examines the politics of Ottoman welfare system and philanthropy during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–909) and the Second Constitutional Period before World War I (1908–1914). The study first focuses on the Hamidian system of benevolence, a monarchica…
The history of seventeenth and eighteenth century Iraq is still largely unknown. Until recently Ottoman historians considered these centuries as ones of "decline" during which little occurred that was of any significance. Moreover, the conviction of most historians, that the Ott…
This dissertation is a study of Rashid Rida's thought and activities in relation to the caliphate. It discusses Rida's thought within the social, cultural, and political context of his time, especially the increasing Western influence in the Middle East. The dissertation traces …