This study argues that the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, served as a key connective node in the early modern world which served as a site of encounter between both pilgrims and empires constructing new and contested notions of imperial power and crafting both communities…
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This dissertation locates the emergence of capitalism and modern state practice in the Persian Gulf port of Basra in elite manipulations of novel state instruments including land deeds, securitized guarantees, and nationality certificates. Globally, the nineteenth century witnes…
The common image that is associated with the religious atmosphere of the Middle Ages is paradoxical. On the one hand there is an aura of fervent religious piety, which also fueled religious animosity, most notably in the bloodshed and brutality of the Crusades. This overwhelming…
This dissertation treats the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) in the context of the European early enlightenment. Intellectual historians have generally placed the Ottoman Empire outside the Enlightenment movement, while Ottoman historians have viewed the early …
This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Drawing on a broad array of primary sources ranging from textbooks and manuals of economics to …
This dissertation argues for the historical agency of the North Anatolian city of Amasya through an analysis of the social and political history of Islamic mysticism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Ottoman Empire. The story of the transmission of the Halvetiye Sufi orde…
Halide Edib Adivar (1881-1964) is recognized as an active intellectual woman of the late Ottoman era and a significant contributor to national independence and the formation of the new Turkish Republic. Her name often occurs in association with prominent male thinkers of the day…
This dissertation investigates the Greek War of Independence as an Ottoman experience, exploring in particular how Sultan Mahmud II (1808-1839) and the central state elite tried to make sense of and reacted to the rapidly changing world around them. It explores how the perceptio…
This dissertation explores the modern history of Amman from the settlement of the Circassians in 1878 to the city's accommodation of Palestinian refugees during the 1950s. The study acknowledges the agency of Amman's inhabitants and the decisive role of the Ottoman state in the …
This dissertation is a study of the thought of Elmalili Muhammed Hamdi [Yazir] (1878-1942), a jurist and scholar active in the politics and religious institutions of the late Ottoman Empire and early modern Turkey (ca. 1900s-1930s). The main focus of this dissertation is the int…
Between Empire and Nation provides a spatial history of Egypt's western borderland in order to illuminate the Egyptian nation-state as a work-in-progress in the decades prior to World War I. It argues that state and nation did not come fully formed to Egypt's western domains, bu…
The reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909) is one of the most controversial in today's historiography. Historians often depict him as a tyrant who instrumentalised Islam as a means of enhancing and expanding his personal authority. In this dissertation, I argue that such v…
This dissertation is an attempt to explain how different jurisconsults (muftis ) throughout the Ottoman domains perceived, constituted, and negotiated their jurisprudential authority over the course of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The debates and exchanges betwee…
This dissertation examines the socioeconomic underpinnings for the emergence of a politically active Ottoman middle class in the sub-province of Tokat during the later Tanzîmât years (1858-1876). During this period, the Ottoman state's Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances inst…
This dissertation is a study of dispute resolution in Ottoman Cairo during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. When engaged in disputes over property, domestic obligations, anti-social behaviour, insults, thefts and assaults, Cairenes had at their disposal a range of formal …
This dissertation investigates domesticity as a site for the production of modernity in late Ottoman Beirut. It focuses specifically on the material aspects of the home in trying to understand its formation in relation to urban management, intellectual discourses, and changing t…
