Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Title
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al-Azdī's Ḥikāyat Abī al Qāsim al-Baghdādī: placing an anomalous text within the literary developments of its time
(2006)The Hikayat Abi al-Qasim al-Baghdadi , by Abu al-Muṭahhar Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Azdi, is a narrative, seemingly fictional prose work written in the late 4th/10th or early 5th/11 th century. Although two editions of it ... -
Assembling ‘Cosmopolitan’ Pera: An Infrastructural History of Late Ottoman Istanbul
In the nineteenth century, the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, became an internationally recognized center of commerce, finance, culture, art, and recreation, in the context of the ... -
At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
The water sector is part of a larger impetus in environmental policy towards public participation, particularly as water management practices have expanded from purely technocratic approaches to include diverse stakeholders ... -
The Bittersweet Taste of the Past: Reading Food in Armenian Literature in Turkish
This dissertation investigates Armenian literature in Turkish through the two authors Takuhi Tovmasyan and Migirdic Margosyan by analyzing their literary works with an emphasis on food. By putting the traumatic experiences ... -
The Bittersweet Taste of the Past: Reading Food in Armenian Literature in Turkish
This dissertation investigates Armenian literature in Turkish through the two authors Takuhi Tovmasyan and Migirdic Margosyan by analyzing their literary works with an emphasis on food. By putting the traumatic experiences ... -
Blue Dreams, Black Disillusions: Literary Market and Modern Authorship in the Late Ottoman Empire
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of ... -
Constructions of Jewish Modernity and Marginality in Izmir, 1860-1907
Izmir, an Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean port city, underwent significant changes during the wide-ranging Ottoman reform movement, Tanzimat (1839-1876). By the end of the nineteenth century, the emerging picture was a rapid ... -
Domestic Conquest: Land Reform and Bounded Rationality in the Middle East
This dissertation examines the rise and fall of projects for land reform - the redistribution of agricultural land from large landowners to those owning little or none - in the Middle East in the mid 20th century, focusing ... -
Fez & Sherwani: Consumption, Self-fashioning and Ottoman Influence in South Asia, 1826-1911
This dissertation examines how novel forms of ‘South-South’ transnational connection operating through image-print and popular consumption shaped a new ideal and aesthetics of modernizing manliness across a wide global ... -
From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
Displaced in both 1948 and 1967, Palestinian refugees in the Middle East now number over 5 million and have lived in exile for decades with no sign of a permanent solution. Despite the duration of their displacement, ... -
The Great Transformation: Contours of the Sino-Islamic Intellectual Tradition
(2012-09-13)During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Following centuries of cultural and physical division between local inhabitants and Muslim settlers, Arab, ... -
The history of an incident and its lessons: communal violence among Arabs in Israel
(2006)A violent incident took place between two Palestinian Arab villages in Galilee, Israel. One village is prominently Druze, and the other is Christian. The dissertation provides a background history on these communities and ... -
The Invisible Hand of Islam:Islamic Business and the State Relations in Turkey and Egypt
This dissertation concentrates on the roles of Islamic business groups in creating opportunities to influence policy outcomes in countries with restricted political environments where secular regimes limited the space for ... -
Lawyers on the Barricades: The Politics of Exceptional Law in Turkey, 1930-1980
Why would a country's top law professors support a military coup d'état and political show trials? Conversely, how could lawyers succeed in bringing military trials of civilians to a halt, rendering them all but useless ... -
Marriage Across the ‘Color’ Spectrum: Making Commitment Palatable in Iran
In the twenty-first century, marriage practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran have evolved rapidly as unfulfilled expectations of intimacy in marriages have caused an increase in divorce rates, and the tendency to postpone ... -
Middle East Militaries: In and Out of Politics and Economies due to External Threat Perceptions A Dynamic Regional Order Approach to Civil–military Relations: Comparative Cases of Turkey, Egypt, Israel
There are many ways for the military to intervene in politics, whether through a direct governing role or monopolizing the national security apparatus. Another much-debated means for military intervention in politics is ... -
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 ...