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This course will introduce students to the history and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa with special attention to the impact of successive Islamic movements that shaped the modern-day political system of Islam and that continues to inform their interactions with Europe and the West today. The organizing theme of the course is "Contact and Change," which will afford an opportunity to examine two of the principle challenges facing historians: accounting for change and understanding people and societies separated from us by space and time. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
This course will introduce students to the history and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa with special attention to the impact of successive Islamic movements that shaped the modern-day political system of Islam and that continues to inform their interactions with Europe and the West today. The organizing theme of the course is "Contact and Change," which will afford an opportunity to examine two of the principle challenges facing historians: accounting for change and understanding people and societies separated from us by space and time. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
HIST 298-01 History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1922 This course is a survey of the history of the Ottomans from its origins as a small medieval principality in Asia Minor to a major global power in the 16th century, and to its eventual disintegration by the end of World War I. The course will concentrate on the main political, social and cultural institutions of the Ottoman society, and how these changed over time. It will also introduce students to some of the major themes and recent trends in Ottoman historiography, including debates on the origins and decline of the Ottomans, the issue of Ottomans' legacy for the successor states, as well as the growing research in the formerly underrepresented groups such as women, minorities etc. Note to History Majors: Ask about using this course for your "thematic" requirement.
Dr. Karatas completed his doctoral degree in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His research areas include urban historiography in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey, urban history in the early modern Islamic world, and the social history of Islamic Mysticism. In addition, Dr. Karatas taught part-time at New York and Sabanci Universities including courses in Ottoman Turkish language, the history of Modern Turkey, and religion and politics in the early modern Middle East.
