Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Title
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(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 ...