Seldom in history has a nation engaged in war without knowing the enemy, as the United States has in Iraq. This book explores, through real life stories, the social and political …
… The Aghas in Dersim didn’t consent to lose their control over their manorial affairs (a form of land ownership) and as a result didn’t pay their taxes; complaints from the provincial …
This paper presents the transformation of the domestic space in Kula by comparing houses built in different periods in order to trace the ‘enduring’and ‘altered’typologies of habitations. …
This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical …
… The CUP sent letters to the Kurdish ulama and aghas in northwestern Iran calling for Jihad against the Russians. CUP member Sayyid Abdulkadir sent similar letters to Kurdish sheikhs …
This paper examines the 1764-1766 rebellion in Cyprus, highlighting the competing notions of order and disorder in the Ottoman provincial context. The revolt began with widespread …
This article examines the early career of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (c. 1635–1676, grand vizier 1661–1676) within the context of the seventeenth-century Ottoman provincial administration, …
… , however, the project of the Kurdish leadership was disrupted by state policies that produced such incidents as the Sivas Camp, which was similar to the deportation of the 55 Aghas in …