Master of Arts Thesis Defense: Didem Yerli

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Master of Arts Thesis Defense of  Didem Yerli (Turkish Studies)

Thesis Jury:

• Selçuk Akşin Somel (Thesis supervisor)
• Hakan Erdem
• Fatih Bayram (Medeniyet University, International Relations)

Title: MEHMET NADİR AND HIS PERIODICAL NÜMUNE-İ TERAKKİ WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE HAMIDIAN ERA

Date & Time: December 29, 2015  & 10:00

Place: Sabancı University, FASS 2054

Keywords: Education History; Children’s Periodicals; Islam Modernism; Hamidian Era; Late Ottoman Empire

Abstract: This study, primarily, aims to carry out a descriptive and a textual analysis of Nümune-i Terakki: A children’s periodical published by Mehmet Nadir, one of the most significant ideologues of education in the Late Ottoman Empire. The periodical was published between 1887 and 1888 as a school periodical belonging to Nümune-i Terakki Mektebi, the mother of the periodical and one of the most significant Muslim private schools in the Hamidian era. On a number of aspects Nümune-i Terakki reflects the natural and conflictual results of modernization efforts in parallel with its era. This study attempts to define, the unrevealed success of Mehmet Nadir in the field of pedagogy with the textual analysis and the biographical information of Nadir. Besides, revealing certain aspects in the periodical will guide contemporary readers in deducing the Hamidian educational reforms. Firstly the Islam modernism idea will be discussed in the light of educational re-structuring, secondly, the position of children and youth as social categories will be analyzed as a natural result of the era. Lastly, by this analysis, this study hopes to apprehend different education methodologies and moral norms that were wished to be accumulated to future generations in the context of the socio-political structure of the Hamidian era.