FORMATION OF MODERN TURKEY-I (UNI ) İSTANBUL ŞEHİR UNIVERSITY FALL 2018

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1 Instructor: Bilal Ali Kotil COURSE TIME & PLACE: MON, 17:00 18:00 & WED, 16:00 18:00 Classroom: ACAD Building 4 #4302 Teaching Assistants (TAs): TBA COURSE DESCRIPTION: FORMATION OF MODERN TURKEY-I (UNI ) İSTANBUL ŞEHİR UNIVERSITY FALL 2018 OVERVIEW After a general introduction to the historiography, methodologies and thematic issues of the course we will discuss the changes in Ottoman social formation, starting from late 18 th century and concentrate on 19 th century. We will look at Ottoman reforms as social, cultural and political process, rather than looking at them as political interruptions or top down impositions. Building on the changes and reforms of the 19 th century we will discuss the formation of modern Turkey within the context of local and international political, economic, social and cultural systemic changes as a transition from an empire to a nation state. FORMAT AND PREREQUISITES Formation of Modern Turkey (FOMT-I) is a survey course in a lecture format. There will be lectures, presentations, audiovisuals, and discussions. Each student is responsible to complete all the required readings before class and attend the classes. The students are expected to ask intelligent questions and participate in class discussions. Besides the needs to be open minded, have curiosity for issues and conceptual analysis related to formation of the Modern Turkey you are expected to be ready to engage with challenging questions. READING MATERIALS MAIN TEXTBOOK: Erick J. Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern History, 3 rd edtn. (I. B. Tauris, 2004); (hereafter will be referred as Turkey). RECOMMENDED READINGS: - Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, nd edtn. (Cambridge, 2005); (hereafter to be referred as Ottoman). - Carter Vaughn Findley, Turkey, Islam, Nationalism and Modernity: A History, (Yale Unv. Press, 2011); (hereafter to be referred as A History). - M. Şükrü Hanioglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 2008); (hereafter to be referred as Late Ottoman). 1

2 REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING POLICY GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: *Attendance is mandatory. Students have 3 passes throughout the semester. For your 4 th absence, you will lose 2.5 points, and for your 5 th absence you will lose another 2.5 points of your attendance and participation grade. YOU WILL FAIL THE CLASS IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN 5 ABSENCES. *Students should keep up with all the assigned readings. Tests will be short paragraph I.D. questions and essay writings. *Academic honesty will be strictly enforced. *Courteous behavior in class is expected both to the instructor and to fellow students (e.g. no cellphone reading/texting, no newspapers/magazines in class during the lecture session!). *Be sensitive and respectful to opinions of your fellow classmates and the others. GRADES: Attendance and participation: %10 5-page book review: %10 mid-term: %35 final: % 45. Title/s of the book and the other details for book review will be announced later. ANY CHANGE(S) IN THE SYLLABUS, IF HAPPENS, WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READING ASSIGNMENTS: 1 st week (Sept. 24 & 26): Overview of the course and approaches to Ottoman and Turkey s history Begin reading: - Erick J. Zürcher, Introduction: Periodization, Theory and Methodology in Turkey, p Donald Quataert, Why study Ottoman history? in The Ottoman, p Jane Hathaway, Problems of Periodization in Ottoman History: The Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 1996): Rifa at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Theorizing in Historical Writing Beyond the Nation-State: Ottoman Society in the Middle Period, p

3 2 nd week (Oct. 1 & 3): Ottoman Empire before the Age of Reforms: - Zürcher, Turkey p Rifa at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State (Albany: SUNY, 2005), p Karen Barkey, The Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2008), p Carter Vaughn Findley, The Return Toward Centralization. In A History, p Baki Tezcan, The Second Empire: The Transformation of the Ottoman Polity in the Early Modern Era, p. 1-13; ; Cemal Kafadar, The Question of Ottoman Decline, Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review (1999). 3 rd week (Oct. 8 & 10): Modernity and Reform: The Long Nineteenth Century - Zürcher, p Halil İnalcık, Application of Tanzimat and its Social Effects, Archivum Ottomanicum, 5 (1973), p PRIMARY SOURCES: - Reform edict of Gülhane in Akram Fouad Khater, Sources in the History of the Middle East. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011: Findley, p Quataert, The Ottoman, p Aub-Manneh, Butrus, The Islamic Roots of the Gülhane Rescript. Die Welt des Islams 34 (October 1994): Hourani, Albert, Ottoman reforms and the politics of notables. In Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East: The Nineteenth Century, edited by William R. Polk, and Richard L. Chambers, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Milen Petrov, Everyday forms of compliance: Subaltern commentaries on Ottoman reform, Comparative Studies in Society and History 4 (October 2004): th week (Oct. 15 & 17): Ottoman Accommodation of the Modern World, Intellectual Movements and the Opposition: - Zürcher, p Banu Turnaoğlu, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017):

4 - Findley, p th week (Oct. 22 & 24): Imperial Networks, Global Connections and Diplomacy - Cemil Aydın, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017): p th week (Oct. 31): Ottoman Orientalism and Imperialism - Ussama Makdisi. Ottoman Orientalism. The American Historical Review 107 (June 2002): Marc Aymes. Many a Standard at a Time: The Ottomans' Leverage with Imperial Studies, Contributions to the History of Concepts 1 (2013): Selim Deringil. "'They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery': The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2 (2003): Wigen Einar. Ottoman Concepts of Empire, Contributions to the History of Concepts 1 (2013): Ussama Makdisi. "Rethinking Ottoman Imperialism: Modernity, Violence, and the Cultural Logic of Ottoman Reform." In The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire, edited by Jens Hanssen and Thomas Philipp, Würzburg: Ergon in Kommission, th week (Nov. 5 & 7): Inter-Communal Relations and Tolerance - Quataert, p Selim Deringil, There Is No Compulsion in Religion: On Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Comparative Studies in Society and History 42 (July 2000): Karen Barkey, The Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2008), p th week (Nov. 12 & 14): REVIEW and MID-TERM EXAM 4

5 9 th week (Nov. 19 & 21): Young Turk Era and the Great War - Zürcher, p Findley, p M. Sukru Hanioglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 2008), p Hasan Kayali, Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, , (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), p Carter Findley and John Rothney, Twentieth Century World, (Wadswoth, 2006) p Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire: (Vintage, 1989) p Hanioglu, p th week (Nov. 26 & 28): Social Transformation, Daily Life, Women and the Family - Quataert, Palmira Johnson Brummett, Gender and Empire in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Caricature, Models of Empire, and the Case for Ottoman Exceptionalism. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27 (2007): Fatma Müge Göçek, Rise of Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change, (Oxford University Press, 1996), p , 53-70, th week (Dec. 3 & 5): From an Empire to a Nation-State - Zürcher, p Findley, p Quataert, p th week (Dec. 10 & 12): BOOK REVIEWS ARE DUE Violence and the Ends of the Ottoman Imperial Order - Ryan Gingeras, Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 1-7; 37-54;

6 13 th week (Dec. 17 & 19): Post-Independence and the Birth of the Modern Turkey - Zürcher, p Findley, , , th week (Dec. 24 & 26): (REVIEW FOR THE FINAL) Atatürk and the Republic: - Zürcher, p M. Sukru Hanioglu, Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton: Princeton University, 2013) 1-8; Findley, Andrew Mango, Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey (Overlook TP, London, 2002) Final Exam: TBA 6