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TRH3033 | The Sources of the Late Modern Ottoman History | 2+0+0 | ECTS:2 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ahmet KARAÇAVUŞ | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Alaaddin Yalçınkaya | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | To inform students about reaching of domesticl and foreign, primary and secondary sources and how to acces and use these materials for their studies to about the history of the Ottoman Empire between the end of the 18th century and the 20th century. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | Get information about the domestic and foreign archives that they can use in the Late Modern Ottoman History studies. | 2,6 | 1, | LO - 2 : | get information about the Ottoman chronicles, sefaretnames, salnames, newspapers and magazines etc. belonging to this period | 11,15 | 1, | LO - 3 : | get information about the published sefaretnames, embassy reports, memoirs and letter collections belonging to foreign ambassadors and consuls who served in the Ottoman Empire during this period. | 1,5,11 | 1, | LO - 4 : | get information about the literature as memoirs, travel books, biography, belonging to local and foreign travelers who visited the Ottoman Empire in this period. | 6,11 | 1, | LO - 5 : | get information about current domestic and foreign publications related to this period. | 11,12 | 1, | LO - 6 : | use all these sources of knowledge in their scientific studies. | 4,7 | 1, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | |
In the content of this course, access and use of domestic and foreign archives, which are the primary sources of Late Modern Ottoman History, sources such as chronicles, salname, sefaretname, travelogues, letters, memoirs, biography, and how to use them in scientific studies will be found. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | General information such as the use of sources in historical studies and classification of sources (primary-secondary source) | | Week 2 | Late Modern Ottoman History and Turkish Archives (Information about special archives such as the Ottoman Bank Archive as well as the Ottoman Archives) | | Week 3 | Information on foreign archives about the Late Modern Ottoman Age (British Archive, Archives Nationales, Arhiv Vneşney Politiki Rossiyskoy İmperii, etc.) | | Week 4 | 19th Century Ottoman Chroniclers and Chronicles | | Week 5 | Ottoman Biography and Bibliographies: Fındıklılı İsmet Efendi, Mehmed Süreyya, Bursalı Mehmed Tahir | | Week 6 | Historical sources written by foreign ambassadors who served in the Ottoman Empire: Sefaretnames, reports, letters, memoirs and their contribution to historical studies | | Week 7 | Sefaretnames of Ottoman Ambassadors and their values as sources | | Week 8 | Preparation for mid term exam | | Week 9 | Mid term exam | | Week 10 | General Ottoman Histories: Hammer, Zinkeisen, Iorga, D'Ohhson and etc. | | Week 11 | Internal and foreign travelogues and their use as resources | | Week 12 | Ottoman press and sources that produced by them: value of Newspapers and Magazines as sources | | Week 13 | Sources of the Ottoman urban history: Provincial Salnames and their use as a source | | Week 14 | Leading secondary literature on the Ottoman Late Modern Age: Encyclopedias (IA, DIA, etc.), current books and articles | | Week 15 | Preparation for end-of-term exam | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Bursalı Mehmed Tahir, (2016) Osmanlı Müellifleri, yay.hz. Yekta Saraç, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi
| | 2 | Mehmed Süreyya, (1996) Sicill-i Osmani, yay.haz. Nuri Akbayar, Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. | | |
1 | M. Alaaddin Yalçınkaya (2008) ?Sir Robert Ainlie?nin İstanbul Büyükelçiliği (1776-1794)?, Osmanlı araştırmaları Dergisi s. 31, ss. 127-159. | | 2 | A.İ. Bağış, (1988), Britain and the Struggle for the Ottoman Empire. Sir Robert Ainslie's Embassy to Istanbul 1776-1794, Isis Press. | | 3 | Ebubekir Ratı Efendi?nin Nemçe Sefaretnamesi (2012) haz.Abdullah Uçman, Kitabevi Yayınları. | | 4 | Joseph V. Hammer, Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi, Üçdal Neşriyat | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 01.12.2023 | 2 | 50 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 19.01.2024 | 2 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 2 | 4 | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | Diğer 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Total work load | | | 60 |
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