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Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire

Course Code	: TAR268
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

To present information about the daily life rituals in the Ottoman Empire.

Course Content

In the Ottoman Empire, information about the social structure, neighborhood culture, family, eating and drinking habits, costume and clothes, education of children will be presented.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lec. Ayten CAN

Learning Outcomes

1.	To have in information about the history oh daily life.
2.	To be able to learn rituals and unusualities in daily life researches and to adapt them to history.
3.	To habve general information about different daily life styles in the Ottoman Empire.
4.	To learn the perception of daily life rituals in Ottoman.
5.	To be able to learn the perception of the determinants of Ottoman modernism in daily life.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Suraiya Faroqhi, Osmanlı Kültürü ve Gündelik Yaşam Ortaçağdan Yirminci Yüzyıla, çev. Elif Kılıç, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2002.
2.	Nevin Meriç, Osmanlı’da Gündelik Hayatın Değişimi Âdâb-ı Muâşeret (1894-1927), İstanbul: Kaknüs Yayınları, 2000.
3.	Ekrem Işın, Everyday life in Istanbul: social historical essays on people, culture and spatial relations, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2001.
4.	Suraiya Faroqhi, Osmanlı Kültürü ve Gündelik Yaşam Ortaçağdan Yirminci Yüzyıla, çev. Elif Kılıç, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1997

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Definition of subject. Limitation of subject. The concept of daily life has become a subject of history.

Week 2 - Theoretical

Sources, primary and secondary sources' detection and criticism in everyday life research

Week 3 - Theoretical

Changes in daily life in the Ottoman Empire. Differences caused by changing time and geography

Week 4 - Theoretical

House, household, residential, neighborhood, neighborhood, furnishing and household goods.

Week 5 - Theoretical

Clothing, nutrition and eating habits.

Week 6 - Theoretical

Daily life, bazaar, market, coffeehouses, baths.

Week 7 - Theoretical

Education of children.

Week 8 - Theoretical

Transportation and communication. Banditry, punishment systems, prisons.

Week 9 - Theoretical

Natural disasters. Climate. Health problems and birth-death. Cleaning habits

Week 10 - Theoretical

Worship. Sacred places, mosques, churches, synagogues, congregations

Week 11 - Theoretical

Places of intellectual life. Intellectual products. Sports and recreation

Week 12 - Theoretical

Coffee houses and coffee culture in the Ottoman Empire.

Week 13 - Theoretical

Change in the daily life of the Ottoman Society

Week 14 - Theoretical

Change in the daily life of the Ottoman Society

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	2	2	56
Midterm Examination	1	6	1	7
Final Examination	1	14	1	15
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				78

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