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Rebellions in Anatolia

Course Code	: TAR218
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 3

Objectives of the Course

Giving information about the economical status and administrative order of the Ottoman Empire, deterioration of peace and order, the Jelali Crisis and Period of Great Flight, disorders in Anatolia during the XVIIth century, local agency (mütegalibelik), emergence of the Ayans, XIXth century Anatolian rebellions, Zeibeks and Ephes inwestern Anatolia and rebellions during the Invasion Period.

Course Content

Difference between banditry and social banditry will be analyzed, religious-social based revolts like Babai, Seikh Bedreddin and Suhte revolts of Anatolia during the Turko-Islamic states of Seljukids and Ottomans will be evaluated with a special emphasis on the Jelali Uprisings which were totaly based on socio-economical status. Information about the Ephe groups that were active during the last period of Ottomans in Aegean will be given.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Bülent ÇELİK

Learning Outcomes

1.	to be able to define nomadism and its effects.
2.	to be able to classify effects of corruption in the Ottoman administrative order to society.
3.	to be able to explain beginning of the Age of Discovery affected Ottoman Empire.
4.	to be able to explain main reasons of the Celali uprisings.
5.	to be able to evaluate the environment in which Anatolian people lived during XVII. and XVIII centuries.
6.	to be able to define the Ayan regime and its effects.
7.	to be able to discuss how rebellions and Efe and Zeybek movements appeared in western Anatolia.
8.	to be able to tell facts that National War of Independence based on and formation of popular support.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Mustafa Akdağ, Turkish People's Struggle for Peace and Order: Celali Rebellions, İstanbul, 1995.
2.	Sabri Yetkin, Bandits in the Aegean, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul 1997.
3.	Yuzo Nagata, A Study on the Ayans - Karaosmanoğulları in History, TTK, Ankara, 1997
4.	Thomas Thornton, Politics, Society, Religion, Administration in the Ottoman Empire 1793-1807, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul 2014.
5.	Mehmet Başaran, Aysun Sarıbey Haykıran, Ali Özçelik, Atçalı Kel Mehmed Efe Banditry and Zeybekism in Western Anatolia, Kitap Yayınevi, İstanbul 2018.
6.	Eric J. Hobsbawm, Bandits, Agora Kitaplığı, İstanbul 2011.
7.	Ümit Erkan, Kızılbaş Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century, Araştırma Yayınları, İstanbul 2016.
8.	Erhan Afyoncu, Military Rebellions and Coups in the Ottoman Empire, Yeditepe Yayınları, İstanbul 2010.
9.	Eric J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels, Studies on Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries, İletişim Yayınevi, İstanbul 2021.
10.	Yılmaz, Yusuf, and Yahya Kadıoğlu. "KÜÇÜK BUZUL ÇAĞI, KURAKLIK ve DİĞER COĞRAFİ OLAYLARIN CELALİ İSYANLARI ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİLERİ." Studies of The Ottoman Domain (Osmanlı Hakimiyet Sahası Çalışmaları) 7.12 (2017): 267-288.
11.	Teoman, Özgür ve Cumali Bozpinar. "Jalali Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire: An Evaluation from a Chayanovian Perspective" Akdeniz İİBF Dergisi, c. 21, sy. 1, 2021, ss. 121-30.
12.	KARASU, Naime Yüksel "Suhte Movements in Saruhan Sub-Province and Surrounding Area and Measures Taken Against Them" Journal of History School 15.LXI (2024): 3904-3925.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Briefing about pre-Ottoman period rebellions in Anatolia and their origins.

Week 2 - Theoretical

Seljuk Period and Babai Rebellion

Week 3 - Theoretical

Socio-economic and cultural reasons of Anatolian reellions and Seikh Bedrettin Rebellion.

Week 4 - Theoretical

Social structure of the Ottoman Empire and relations between the subjects and Ottoman state organization.

Week 5 - Theoretical

Nomadizm, taxation and the subjects.

Week 6 - Theoretical

Celali (or Jelali) uprisings, internal and external reasons, groups participated in the rebellions.

Week 7 - Theoretical

Celali (or Jelali) uprisings, internal and external reasons, groups participated in the rebellions.

Week 8 - Theoretical

Samples for Celali uprisings, and their suppressions.

Week 9 - Theoretical

Results and effects of Celali uprisings.

Week 10 - Theoretical

Continuous wars and collapse of Timar system.

Week 11 - Theoretical

Relations between the subjects and the state, emergence of new administrators and intermediaries.

Week 12 - Theoretical

Ottoman Social order in XVII. and XVIII. centruies.

Week 13 - Theoretical

Ayan regime and effects on society.

Week 14 - Theoretical

Individual and small group rebellions in western Anatolia (Efe and Zeibek institutions)

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	0	2	28
Reading	14	0	2	28
Midterm Examination	1	7	1	8
Final Examination	1	14	1	15
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				79

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