This dissertation is fundamentally about the formation of new regional spaces in Central Eurasia viewed from a dynamic, comparative and historical approach. Analyzing the global-local economic and political interactions and their consequences on resource rich countries of the Ca…
Since the 1990s, dominant imageries of what constitutes the Turkic World (i.e., what places and spaces are Turkic) have undergone significant transformations and emerged as omnipresent symbols in Turkey's cultural and political landscape. These Türk Dünyasi (or "Turkic World") c…
Many scholars have discussed the relationship between architecture and music. Design methodologies have been created to highlight this intersection, attempting to attain the sublime. While architecture theorists have used western music as a foundation, this thesis aims to invest…
As a regional history, this dissertation examines Bengali Muslim politics of region, religion, and social justice from the 1840s to 1952. It argues that Bengali Muslim constructions of communitarian selfhood in the colonial and early post-colonial eras entailed a variety of appr…