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Rule, Misconduct, and Dysfunction: The Police Forces in Theory and Practice in Fin-de-Siècle Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nurcin Ileri Assembling the complexities and problems associated with public order and security in fin-de-siècle Istanbul, Ileri’s article presents a brief institutional history of the modern police forces and provides a vivid picture of the everyday lives of police officers through interrogation...
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From Istanbul to Tabriz: Modernity and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 May 2008
... light on the impact of Ottoman reformist and constitutional movements in similar developments in Iran and the role of modernizing bureaucrats, merchants, ulema, and intellectuals in the diffusion of an alternative and indigenous modernist and constitutionalist ideology from Istanbul to Tabriz...
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Gender and Empire in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Caricature, Models of Empire, and the Case for Ottoman Exceptionalism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 August 2007
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“Awakening a Horrible Monster”: Negotiating the Jazz Public in 1920s Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 574–582.
Published: 01 December 2010
...G. Carole Woodall Istanbul of the 1920s evoked a period of transition and redefinition in the aftermath of World War I and the onset of the Turkish Republic (1923). Precisely, what position Istanbul would occupy as well as its constituents in the nascent republic was in flux. Debates around...
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“Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Kyle T. Evered “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic Wyers Mark David Istanbul : Libra Kitap , 2012 312 pp., 35,00 TL (cloth) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS
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The Urban Dynamism of Islamic Hegemony: Absorbing Squatter Creativity in Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 423–437.
Published: 01 December 2009
... analyzes Islamization by studying the interactions between Islamists and the residents in a poor district in Istanbul. It demonstrates not only that the urban poor are indeed active in forming communities and subjectivities but also that their agency is shaped (and ultimately absorbed) by the Islamist...
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Eyes in the Dark: Nightlife and Visual Regimes in Late Ottoman Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 245–261.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to thank Zeynep Zeviner and Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak for their assistance and Nurçin İleri for some valuable leads and comments. Special thanks to my friends On Barak and Liat Kozma for their insights. References Midhat Ahmet . Avrupa'da Bir Cevelan . Istanbul : Tercüman-ı Hakikat , 1890...
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Allure of the Light, Fear of the Dark: Nighttime Illumination, Spectacle, and Order in Fin-de-Siècle Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 280–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nurçin İleri İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city...
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From Istanbul to Dakar and Dar es Salaam: Efendi Masculinity, Islamic Civility, and the Pedagogy of Adab
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 521–535.
Published: 01 December 2024
... civilizational discourses emanating from European metropoles, the modernizing reforms of the Kemalist state, and Islamic pedagogies of civility. At the intersection of these competing and concurring civilizing projects and processes is situated the figure of “Istanbul efendisi ” (the gentleman from Istanbul...
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The Régie Monopoly and Tobacco Workers in Late Ottoman Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 206–219.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Can Nacar In 1883, the Ottoman government granted a tobacco monopoly to a foreign company called the Régie. The Régie opened its largest factory in the Cibali district of Istanbul in 1884. Nacar’s study examines strikes and unionization efforts in the Cibali factory at the turn of the century...
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Palimpsests of Multiculturalism and Museumization of Culture: Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Museum as an Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 324–345.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...
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New Methods for Governing Death in Istanbul: Early Modern Ottoman Necropolitics
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 146–162.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Nükhet Varlık Abstract The management of the dead underwent major transformations in early modern Istanbul, owing to rapid population growth and its consequences in the city's urban layout. Starting around the turn of the sixteenth century, the majority of the urban dead began to be buried outside...
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Intoxication and Imperialism: Nightlife in Occupied Istanbul, 1918–23
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 299–313.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal MacArthur-Seal's article explores how the Allied occupation of Istanbul between 1918 and 1923 revived and reshaped nightlife after a period of wartime privation. Soldiers and sailors sought in the nocturnal city to escape the military regimes governing their lives...
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Afghan men posing around the grave Crane built for Jamaluddin in Istanbul. ...
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in Corpse Politics and the Traveling Bones of Jamaluddin al-Afghani
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Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 1. Afghan men posing around the grave Crane built for Jamaluddin in Istanbul. Source: Aʻzami, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghan . Courtesy NYU Afghanistan Digital Library.
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in The Cemetery for the Kimsesiz : Unclaimed and Anonymous Death in Turkey
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. One lot for kimsesiz graves. Kilyos Cemetery for the Kimsesiz, Istanbul, 2019. Photo by the author.
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in The Cemetery for the Kimsesiz : Unclaimed and Anonymous Death in Turkey
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 8. The grave of “Baby the Turk.” Kilyos Cemetery for the Kimsesiz, Istanbul, 2019. Photo by the author.
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The Ottoman Legacy: Urban Geographies, National Imaginaries, and Global Discourses of Tolerance
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 183–195.
Published: 01 May 2011
... on and is reproduced through Istanbul's urban geography; places and landscapes that represent a multiethnic tolerant past come to serve as evidence for what the Ottoman legacy represents. Second, while discourses of Ottoman tolerance are grounded in a local past, they are informed by, and thus respond to, very...
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Winding Road to Modernization: Trabzon-Erzurum-Bayezid Road in the Late Ottoman World
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 191–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Istanbul. The state also wanted to facilitate agriculture and commerce. Apart from these general concerns, many aspects of the Trabzon-Bayezid road project related to local needs and demands rather than the central government’s desire to modernize the country. These needs gave rise to both collaboration...
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Novel Anxieties: An Ottoman Counter-discourse on Time and Space
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 387–400.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that the Ottoman novelists Ahmet Midhat, Fatma Aliye, and Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem developed a counter-discourse against rapid modernization projects in Istanbul. Through a depiction of everyday life experiences related to the latest inventions of modern technology, Ottoman novelists thematize individual anxieties...
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Teaching Loyalty in the Late Ottoman Balkans: Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 15–23.
Published: 01 August 2001
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