Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Subject "near and middle eastern studies"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...