Between order and disorder: the problem of nationality among Ottoman-Iranian tribes in the Hamidian era

Fındık, Melahat (2012) Between order and disorder: the problem of nationality among Ottoman-Iranian tribes in the Hamidian era. [Thesis]

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Abstract

This study investigates how citizenship was perceived and implemented along the Iranian border during the Hamidian era. While explaining the process of transition from subjecthood to citizenship, my aim was to assert how the Ottoman Empire built citizenship approach throughout its people along the border. In this thesis I wanted to focus on which difficulties the Ottomans were confronted on creating citizens especially in the areas that remote from the center. One of these difficulties was the sectarian divergence between the Sunni and Shi’a sects, which derived from the formation of Shi'i Safavid state in the 16th century. This sectarian divergence affected the Ottomans' nerves on creating loyal citizens in the Baghdad, Mosul and Basra provinces of the Empire. The second obstacle was the loose central control over these remote areas that produced local autonomous power holders. The last issue was the ambiguity of the borderline between the two states which made difficult determine the citizenship status of the nomadic tribes that wandering around the border.
Item Type: Thesis
Uncontrolled Keywords: Citizenship. -- The Ottoman law of nationality. -- Prohibition of marriages between the Ottoman women and Iranian men. -- The Ottoman-Iranian relations. -- Vatandaşlık. -- Osmanlı vatandaşlık kanunu. -- Osmanlı kadınları ile İranlı erkeklerin evliliklerini yasaklayan kanun. -- Osmanlı-İran ilişkileri.
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: IC-Cataloging
Date Deposited: 17 Jul 2018 12:18
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 10:25
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/35136

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