Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Title
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Negotiating Illegality: Bypassed Minorities’ Access to Infrastructure in Middle Eastern Democracies
What happens when democratic governments distribute infrastructure systems perceived as prerequisites for economic prosperity and modernization, such as systems providing water and electricity, to disadvantage their minority ... -
Networks of Great Expectations: Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age.
For more than a decade now, a growing variety of protests, mobilizations and movements have been initiated through the Internet. Particularly from 2011 and onwards, a rapid and global expansion of such movements has ... -
Ottoman Reflections on Gender, Class and Race in Victorian England: Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Finten
Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan (1852–1937), who spent more than twenty years of his life in London and India, was the first Ottoman author who made India and the British Empire a frequently visited topic in his literary works. This ... -
Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court
"Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court" argues that in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Ottoman scholars and statesmen produced a new literary language in order to express ... -
Precarious Identity, Tenacious Stereotype: The Making of Romani Alterity in Late- and Post-Ottoman Turkey
This dissertation is a study of the generative power of categories and the state practices based upon them. The case of the Roma in the late Ottoman and early Republican contexts illustrates the productive role of definition ... -
(Re)bordering Territory and Citizenship on the Greek-Turkish Borderland
For almost a century, the Greek-Turkish antagonism has been central to the construction of notions of national citizenship and national territory in their official historiographies, state policies and public view. In the ... -
Shariʿa in the Secular State: Evolving Perceptions of Law and Religion in Turkey
Many polls, including my own, indicate that a notable percentage of Turks want "Shariʿa"--a term of art, the meaning of which I attempt to unpack and clarify in this study--to be enforced by the state. However, my evidence ... -
The Early Christianization of Marriage: Sex, Procreation, and Ritual
This dissertation tells the story of how the ritualization of Christian marriage antedated the appearance of episcopal blessings at Christian wedding ceremonies in the fourth century CE. Various forms of the Christianization ... -
The Legibility of Power and Culture in Ba‘thist Iraq from 1968-1991
From 1968 until 1991, the state led by the Iraqi Ba‘th Party fought a war against groups in Iraq that did not comply with state dictates. Situated in the Third World of postcolonial lineage, Iraq was in a milieu shaped by ... -
The Self and the State: Bureaucracy and the Ethics of Identity in the Twentieth Century Turkish Novel
“The Self and the State” examines the twentieth century Turkish novel and its use of bureaucracy as a critique of the modernization and secularization programs initiated by the Republic of Turkey’s first president, Mustafa ... -
Visions of Community: Literary Culture and Social Change among the Northern Kyrgyz, 1856-1924
This dissertation examines the transformations in the northern Kyrgyz society and culture between the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. I explore how a deeply-held and territorially-oriented sense of collective ... -
‘Without a Purpose, Misfortune Will Befall Our Land:’ Discourses of Nation in Late Ottoman Kurdistan
In the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, Kurdish and Assyrian nationalists sought to improve their communities’ situations. This dissertation demonstrates the historical factors that shaped the discourses of these nascent ... -
Writing a Grammatical Commentary on Hafiz of Shiraz: A Sixteenth-century Ottoman Scholar on the Divan of Hafiz
(2013-04-17)This dissertation explores the study and interpretation of the Divan (poetry collection) of Hafiz of Shiraz (d. ca. 1389), the most celebrated lyric poet of classical Persian, in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire and ...