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Last Updated: 21/05/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
HUK696 - The Nature of the Ottoman State and Society II. SEMESTER 3 +0 7.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ UĞUR KARA
Mode of Delivery Face to face education
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended
Recommended Resources Halil İnalcık, Devlet-i Aliyye; Sencer Divitçioğlu, Asya Üretim Tarzı ve Osmanlı Toplumu; Friedrich Giese “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Kuruluşu Meselesi” Ümit Hassan, Osmanlı: Örgüt-İnanç-Davranış’tan Hukuk-İdeoloji’ye; Halil İnalcık, “Osmanlı Devleti’nin Doğuşu Meselesi”; Uğur Kara, \"Göçebelikten Devletleşmeye Geçiş Üzerine Bir Tahlil: Hikmet Kıvılcımlı\'nın Tarih Tezi Işığımda Osmanlı Devletleşmesi\"; Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State; Hikmet Kıvılcımlı, Osmanlı Tarihinin Maddesi; M. Fuad Köprülü, Bizans Müesseselerinin Osmanlı Müesseselerine Tesiri; Rudi Paul Lindner, Ortaçağ Anadolu’sunda Göçebeler ve Osmanlılar; Heath W. Lowry, Erken Dönem Osmanlı Devleti’nin Yapısı; Şevket Pamuk, 100 Soruda Osmanlı-Türkiye İktisadî Tarihi: 1500-1914; Taner Timur,Osmanlı Çalışmaları: İlkel Feodalizmden Yarı Sömürge Ekonomisine; Paul Wittek, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Doğuşu
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Introduction: The paths of state formation, Transition from nomadism to statehood
Week - 2 Classical period: Ottoman state organisation
Week - 3 Classical period: Ottoman legal system
Week - 4 Classical period: Ottoman production system, Ottoman social structure
Week - 5 Theoretical debates on Ottoman political and social structure: Feudalism, Asian mode of production
Week - 6 Theoretical debates on Ottoman political and social structure: Fiscal mode of production, Ancient imperial tradition
Week - 7 Changes in state and social structure in the 17th and 18th centuries
Week - 8 The Ottoman modernisation process: The initiatives for the rule of law
Week - 9 The Ottoman modernisation process: Tanzimat and Islahat Edicts, the 1876 Constitution
Week - 10 The codification of Ottoman law and the rise of channels for political participation
Week - 11 Political and social life during the Second Constitutional Era
Week - 12 Presentations
Week - 13 Presentations
Week - 14 Presentations

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