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Selçuk Akşin Somel Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Member (216) 483 9278 aksinsomelsabanciunivedu

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http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/somel/

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

Undergraduate: Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences Dept.of Int.Relations 1983; MA: Boğaziçi University Dept.of History 1987; Ph.D. : Bamberg University (Germany) Turkology, History and Sociology 1993.

Areas of Interest

19th century Ottoman education; Ottoman bureaucracy during the reform era; relationship between central authority and peripheral populations of the Balkans, east Anatolia and the Arab lands; nationalist movements in the Balkans; 19th century Ottoman political thought; Ottoman women during the age of reforms.

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2020) "New data on the main features of the social structure of Istanbul in the aftermath of the Vaka-i Hayriyye: a summary inventory of the Istanbul population census for the period of 1830-31", Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi, Vol.56, 143-224 (AHCI)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2009) "Şam'da eğitim sorunu ve Tanzimat'ın Suriye'de geçerli kılınması meselesi (1861) (The issue of education in Damascus and the application of the Tanzimat in Syria (1861))", Tarih ve Toplum Yeni Yaklaşımlar, No.8, 93-132 (NA)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2009) "Gölgede kalmış bir Osmanlı devlet adamı: Şeyhü'l-Vüzerâ Namık Paşa (A forgotten Ottoman statesman: Namık Pasha, Doyen of Viziers)", Toplumsal Tarih, No.186, 60-67 (NA)

Demirci, Tuba and Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2008) "Women's bodies, demography, and public health: abortion policy and perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century", Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.17, No.3, 377-420 (SSCI)

Demirci, Tuba and Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2008) "Control over feminine body, procreation and public health: demography, bio-politics and abortion in the Ottoman Empire (1789-1908)", Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.17, No.3 (SSCI)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2007) "Osmanlı Ermenilerinde kültür modernleşmesi, cemaat okulları ve Abdülhamid rejimi", Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, No.5, 71-92 (NA)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2005) "Maarif Müdürü Radovişli Mustafa Bey'in raporları ve müslim ve gayrı müslim eğitimi: II.Abdülhamid devri Selanik taşrasında maarif meselesi (1885-1886)", Tarih ve Toplum, Vol.I, No.2-Güz , 113-147 (NA)

Methodieva, Milena B. and Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2004) "Keeping the bonds: the Ottomans and Muslim education in autonomous Bulgaria, 1878-1908", Turcica, Vol.36, 141-164 (NA)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin (2003) "Osmanlı tarihi sahasında Türkçe başvuru eserler: akademik ve siyasal bir durum tespiti", Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, Vol.2, No.1, 173-230 (NA)

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Hakan-ı Rum or Yavuz Sultan Selim: throne of Joseph or universal Islamic caliphate? Some observations on changing Ottoman Turkish perceptions of the conquest of the Mamluk lands from 1520 to 1920", 1516: The Year That Changed the Middle East, Abu-Husayn, Abdulrahim (ed.), Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, September 2021, 45-109

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "1869 tarihli Maârif-i Umûmiyye Nizâmnâmesi, esbab-ı mucibe layihası ve ideolojik temelleri", Sultan Abdülmecid ve Dönemi (1823-1861), Kahraman, Kemal and Baytar, İlona (eds.), İstanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür A.Ş. Yayınları 2015, 136-167

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Melekler, vatanperverler ve ajan provokatörler: mutlakiyet devri Diyarbakır okul gençliği, bürokrasi ve Ziya Gökalp'in idadi öğrenciliğine ilişkin soruşturma kayıtları(1894-1895)[Angels, demons, and agent provocateurs: school youth in Diyarbakır during the autocracy of Abdülhamid II, bureaucracy, and police reports concerning Ziya Gökalp's high school political activities (1894-1895)]", Yakın Türkiye Tarihinden Sayfalar: Sina Akşin'e Armağan, Alkan, Mehmet Ö. (ed.), İstanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, April 2014

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Taşranın denetimi ve asimilasyonu: Diyarbakır'da sivil devlet eğitimi'nin ortaya çıkışı (1868-1908)", Diyarbakır Tebliğleri: Diyarbakır ve Çevresi Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Tarihi Konferansı, Aktar, Cengiz (ed.), İstanbul: Hrant Dink Vakfı Yayınları, June 2013, 139-158

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Abdülhamit devri eğitim tarihçiliğine bir bakış: 1980 sonrasında taşra maarifi ve gayrı müslim mekteplerinin historiografik bir analizi", Alman Türk Tesadüfleri: Kemal Beydilli'ye Armağan (Deutsch-Türkische Begegnungen: Festschrift für Kemal Beydilli), Reindl-Kiel, Hedda and Kenan, Seyfi (eds.), Berlin: EB Verlag, May 2013, 571-592

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Mustafa Bey of Radoviş (1843-1893): bureaucrat, journalist and deputy of Salonica to the first Ottoman parliament", The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy, Herzog, Christoph and Sharif, Malek (eds.), Würzburg: Ergon in Kommission, August 2010, 129-150

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Die Deutschen an der "Pforte der glückseligkeit": kulturelle und soziale begegnungen mit Istanbuler Türken zwischen 1870 und 1918 = Almanlar Dersaadet'te: 1870-1918 devresi İstanbul'unda Almanlarla Osmanlıların kültürel ve toplumsal buluşma deneyimi", Deutsche Prasenz am Bosporus: 130 Jahre Kaiserliches Botschaftspalais, 120 Jahre Historische Sommerresidenz des Deutschen Botschafters in Tarabya, Kummer, Matthias von (ed.), İstanbul: Generalkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2009, 35-65

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Regulations for raising children during the Hamidian Period", Enfance et Jeunesse Dans Le Monde Musulman (Chilhood and Youth in the Muslim World), Georgeon, François and Kreiser, Klaus (eds.), Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose 2007, 211-217

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Sources on the education of Ottoman women in the prime ministerial Ottoman archive for the period of reforms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries", Beyond The Exotic: Women's Histories In Islamic Societies, Sonbol, Amira El Azhary (ed.), Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, August 2005, 295-306

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Christian community schools during the Ottoman reform period", Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy, Özdalga, Elisabeth (ed.), London: RoutledgeCurzon, April 2005, 254-273

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "Osmanskaia Imperia: mestnıye elitıy i mehanizmıy ih integratsii", Rossiyskaia İmperia v Sravnitel'noi Perspektive, Miller, A. I. (ed.), Moscow: Novoe İzdatel'stvo, August 2004, 177-204

Somel, Selçuk Akşin, "The religious community schools and foreign missionary schools", Ottoman Civilization, İnalcık, Halil and Renda, Günsel (eds.), Istanbul: Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture, November 2003, 386-401