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Papers by Zeynep Aydogan
![Research paper thumbnail of “Saltuknâme’de Acâib Diyârlar, Başka Coğrafyalar [Other Geographies, Wondrous Lands in the Saltukname]”, Toplumsal Tarih 356 (Istanbul: 2023): 24-28.](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/106986969/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Denizden karaya çıkarak fil ve mandaları yuttuktan sonra ağaca sarılan ejderha görünümlü yılan.
![Research paper thumbnail of Frenkler, Rumiler, Yunaniler: Saltukname’de Değişen Coğrafi Algı [Frenks, Rumis and Yunanis: The Changing Geographical Perception in the Saltukname]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/102500028/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Mekan ve Kültür [Space and Culture], Edited by Emine Onaran İncirlioğlu and Barış Kılıçbay, 2011
The Written and the Spoken in Central Asia: Festschrift for Ingeborg Baldauf, Edited by Redkollegiia (Edition Tethys), 2021
Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural 1, 2020
Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries, Ed. K. Schull and C. Verhaaren_Contents.pdf
Öz Anadolu'nun Müslümanlarca fethi sürecindeki dini kahramanlara ili kin büyük kahramanlk anlat... more Öz Anadolu'nun Müslümanlarca fethi sürecindeki dini kahramanlara ili kin büyük kahramanlk anlatlar, geç dönem ortaça da Küçük Asya' da var olan snr toplumunun dünya görü lerini ve ideolojilerini yanstan tannm kaynaklar olagelmi tir. Bu makale Battalnâme, Dani mendnâme ve Saltuknâme gibi destanlarda Frenk, Rum ve Yunan gibi çe itli kategoriler ba lamnda "öteki"nin temsilini ele almaktadr. Makale, bu gruplarn temsilinin, yi itlik, adalet, cömertlik, cesaret ve öz-disiplin gibi snr topluluklarna özgü idealleri tersine çevirerek esas itibariyle negatif bir öz-imaj (self-image) i levi gördü ünü iddia etmektedir. Bir taraftan gayrimüslim müttefikleri ihtidaya davet ederken, di er taraftan gaza ideolojisini te vik etmenin bir arac olarak, kafirin, kahramann "silah arkada " haline gelmesi meselesine bilhassa dikkat çekmektedir.
Talks by Zeynep Aydogan
“W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?” meeting on Wednesday, July 21, at 12 noon (EDT, 9 am PD... more “W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?” meeting on Wednesday, July 21, at 12 noon (EDT, 9 am PDT, 7 pm Greece and Turkey). Marinos Sariyannis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno) will host (in alphabetical order of last names) Zeynep Aydoğan (FORTH), Feray Coşkun (Özyeğin University), Güneş Işıksel (Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Ethan Menchinger (Manchester University), and Ahmet Tunç Şen (Columbia University), who will present some of the work they have been doing within the framework of "GHOST -- Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities (2018-2023)," a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and run by Sariyannis.
Conference Presentations by Zeynep Aydogan
by Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydogan, Nikolas Pissis, B. Harun Küçük, Baki Tezcan, Kostas Sarris, Slobodan Ilić, Maria Mavroudi, Guy Burak, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Ahmet Tunç Şen, Side Emre, Nir Shafir, and Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Research projects by Zeynep Aydogan
Available online: https://ghost.ims.forth.gr/acaib/issue-2021-2/
Thesis Chapters by Zeynep Aydogan
Summary The present study examines different layers of identity in the epic narratives of the M... more Summary
The present study examines different layers of identity in the epic narratives of the Muslim conquest of Anatolia. Informed by dizzyingly complex realities of their time, the Turkish warrior epics are the cultural products of the frontier society that was dominated by oral traditions. Interwoven around the stories of legendary warriors and dervishes, the sources shed light on the collective memory of the frontiersmen and how they conceived of and preserved the legacy of the frontier traditions while adapting themselves to the changing political and cultural conditions of late medieval Anatolia.
The first part of the thesis focuses on the “Frontiers”. It attempts to reconstruct the physical setting by following the geographical information provided in the epics and draws an imaginary map of the Anatolian frontier zones between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. As the study demonstrates, the setting for mobility and fluidity required new terms for defining identity. This is reflected in the sources where some of the ideologically charged places were transposed into a different geographical setting along with the actually moving frontiers, and were ascribed new meanings in step with the frontiersmen’s changing geographical conceptions of the world that surrounded them.
In pursuit of a new identity, the drawing of boundaries between self and others – an essential component of identity construction – constitutes the focus of the second part of the dissertation that deals with the “Infidels” in their cultural settings. Although the analysis relies on the assumption that the representation of the “other” primarily functions as a negative self-image, an inversion of the ideals of the frontier communities, the sources also reveal that there were no clear-cut boundaries between the two sides of the frontier and, however loose all loyalties were, bonds of solidarity could also be established across religious and ethnic lines. Therefore, although the sources argue within the framework of motifs and set patterns, the caricature of infidels cannot be merely considered as a literary convention but also articulates the hope of inclusion that the sources discoursively offered to the Christians upon their conversion to Islam.
Books by Zeynep Aydogan
Denizden karaya çıkarak fil ve mandaları yuttuktan sonra ağaca sarılan ejderha görünümlü yılan.
Mekan ve Kültür [Space and Culture], Edited by Emine Onaran İncirlioğlu and Barış Kılıçbay, 2011
The Written and the Spoken in Central Asia: Festschrift for Ingeborg Baldauf, Edited by Redkollegiia (Edition Tethys), 2021
Aca’ib: Occasional papers on the Ottoman perceptions of the supernatural 1, 2020
Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries, Ed. K. Schull and C. Verhaaren_Contents.pdf
Öz Anadolu'nun Müslümanlarca fethi sürecindeki dini kahramanlara ili kin büyük kahramanlk anlat... more Öz Anadolu'nun Müslümanlarca fethi sürecindeki dini kahramanlara ili kin büyük kahramanlk anlatlar, geç dönem ortaça da Küçük Asya' da var olan snr toplumunun dünya görü lerini ve ideolojilerini yanstan tannm kaynaklar olagelmi tir. Bu makale Battalnâme, Dani mendnâme ve Saltuknâme gibi destanlarda Frenk, Rum ve Yunan gibi çe itli kategoriler ba lamnda "öteki"nin temsilini ele almaktadr. Makale, bu gruplarn temsilinin, yi itlik, adalet, cömertlik, cesaret ve öz-disiplin gibi snr topluluklarna özgü idealleri tersine çevirerek esas itibariyle negatif bir öz-imaj (self-image) i levi gördü ünü iddia etmektedir. Bir taraftan gayrimüslim müttefikleri ihtidaya davet ederken, di er taraftan gaza ideolojisini te vik etmenin bir arac olarak, kafirin, kahramann "silah arkada " haline gelmesi meselesine bilhassa dikkat çekmektedir.
“W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?” meeting on Wednesday, July 21, at 12 noon (EDT, 9 am PD... more “W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?” meeting on Wednesday, July 21, at 12 noon (EDT, 9 am PDT, 7 pm Greece and Turkey). Marinos Sariyannis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno) will host (in alphabetical order of last names) Zeynep Aydoğan (FORTH), Feray Coşkun (Özyeğin University), Güneş Işıksel (Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Ethan Menchinger (Manchester University), and Ahmet Tunç Şen (Columbia University), who will present some of the work they have been doing within the framework of "GHOST -- Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition: Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities (2018-2023)," a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and run by Sariyannis.
by Marinos Sariyannis, Zeynep Aydogan, Nikolas Pissis, B. Harun Küçük, Baki Tezcan, Kostas Sarris, Slobodan Ilić, Maria Mavroudi, Guy Burak, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Ahmet Tunç Şen, Side Emre, Nir Shafir, and Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Summary The present study examines different layers of identity in the epic narratives of the M... more Summary
The present study examines different layers of identity in the epic narratives of the Muslim conquest of Anatolia. Informed by dizzyingly complex realities of their time, the Turkish warrior epics are the cultural products of the frontier society that was dominated by oral traditions. Interwoven around the stories of legendary warriors and dervishes, the sources shed light on the collective memory of the frontiersmen and how they conceived of and preserved the legacy of the frontier traditions while adapting themselves to the changing political and cultural conditions of late medieval Anatolia.
The first part of the thesis focuses on the “Frontiers”. It attempts to reconstruct the physical setting by following the geographical information provided in the epics and draws an imaginary map of the Anatolian frontier zones between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. As the study demonstrates, the setting for mobility and fluidity required new terms for defining identity. This is reflected in the sources where some of the ideologically charged places were transposed into a different geographical setting along with the actually moving frontiers, and were ascribed new meanings in step with the frontiersmen’s changing geographical conceptions of the world that surrounded them.
In pursuit of a new identity, the drawing of boundaries between self and others – an essential component of identity construction – constitutes the focus of the second part of the dissertation that deals with the “Infidels” in their cultural settings. Although the analysis relies on the assumption that the representation of the “other” primarily functions as a negative self-image, an inversion of the ideals of the frontier communities, the sources also reveal that there were no clear-cut boundaries between the two sides of the frontier and, however loose all loyalties were, bonds of solidarity could also be established across religious and ethnic lines. Therefore, although the sources argue within the framework of motifs and set patterns, the caricature of infidels cannot be merely considered as a literary convention but also articulates the hope of inclusion that the sources discoursively offered to the Christians upon their conversion to Islam.