Bahattin Aksit 2021 Halil Inalcık and Michael Meeker on Classical Ottoman state and social structure

Bahattin Aksit 2021 Halil Inalcık and Michael Meeker on Classical Ottoman state and social structure

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In this video I talk about Halil Inalık's articles on Mehmet the Conqueror and Michale Meeker's book A Nation of Empire especailly the chapter on classical state and social structure of Ottoman Empire through Mehmet II.'s building of Topkapı Palace and issuing a Kanunname (Code of Laws). Meeker's use of Foucault's concepts of power, panopticon, discipline, gaze and supervision in the analiysis of the architectural structure of Topkapı Palace combining it with Cafer Çelebi's Hevesname are discussed in the video.

Bahattin Aksit 2021 Lewis and Meeker: Imperial Continuity of Turkish State and Society

Bernard Lewis's (1961) Emergence of Modern Turkey and Micheal Meeker's (2002) A Nation of Empire are two books that discuss Ottoman and Republican continuity in Turkey. Lewis's book is politcal scientific and historical while Meeker's book is anthropological and historical. Meeker as anthropologist studied the town of Of in Trabzon starting second half of 1960's by focusing on state-society relationships and puzzled with the continuity and/or discontinuity with the past social and politcal structures. On the basis of repeated visits to Of and a historical research he found out imperial legacy in the local community. Lewis stated at the beginning of his book that he will focus on three elements that go into making of modern Turkey: the Islamic, the Turkish and the Local. In this video Lewis's and Meeker's books will be taken up. In the next video Meeker's and Halil İnalcık's contributions to the study of classical Ottoman State struclture will be summarized. 

Bahattin Akşit 2021. Mardin and Karpat on Continuity and Discontinuity of Ottoman-Republican Turkey

 Bahattin Akşit 2021. Mardin and Karpat on Continuity and Discontinuity of Ottoman-Republican Turkey

Şerif Mardin's and Kemal Karpat's approaches on Continuity and Discontinuity of society, religion and culture from Ottoman periods to -Republican periods in Turkey.