M Talha Çiçek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Talha Çiçek |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Talha |
| FAMILY NAME | Çiçek |
| SIGNATURE | ÇIÇEK M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Medeniyet University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1367-3995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Channeling Globalization, Building Empire
This essay examines the integration of Gaza's agricultural production into global markets during the late Ottoman period, focusing on the interplay between state building and economic globalization.While contemporary attention to Gaza centers on its humanitarian crisis, historical scholarship on the region remains limited.Addressing this gap, M. Talha iek's study explores how the Ottoman state channeled Gaza's cereal and animal production into th…
Tribal agency and the translocalization of the Middle East
This article argues that the agency of the Arab Bedouin across state borders played a remarkable role in the establishment of a translocal order containing Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It first examines the translocalization of tribal nationality highlighting their achievements to remain in a trans-border existence against French and British mandates, and, second, reveals the constructive roles played by tribes in the establishment of a …
Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle E…
Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
Relocating the Arabs in Turkish Historiography
The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed remarkable publications in Turkish intellectual life decoding and deconstructing the official interpretation of Turkey's history. Many books with a revisionist perspective have been published examining the different periods of Ottoman history. The last decade of the Ottoman period and early Republican history have naturally been the focus of the greatest proportion of historical works as…
From “notable Syrians” to “ordinary Anatolians
This article examines an important attempt at the political engineering undertaken in Syria during the Great War. It focuses on the experience of the Arabs exiled to Anatolia by Cemal Pasha to redesign Syrian society in line with the Committee of Union and Progress’ idea of empire, which imagined an authoritarian regime. The members of the Arabist parties were removed from Syria to eliminate their contemporaneous and future resistance to the emer…
The tribal partners of empire in Arabia
This article is about an aspect of the Ottoman-Rashidi partnership in the late Ottoman Empire that deeply influenced the order of things in Arabia and resulted in both the Ottomans and the Rashidis becoming more significant actors in regional politics. The main argument is that this partnership made a great contribution to the visibly increasing Ottoman influence in Najd (i.e., central Arabia) and the Persian Gulf in the late nineteenth and early…
The Holy War in Syria
This article aims to analyse the importance of the Egyptian campaign to Ottoman policy in the First World War. It seeks to add to our knowledge of the Ottoman war experience by putting the focus on the empire’s preparations for conquering Egypt and by giving priority to understand the aims of the expedition. The expedition itself is placed within the context of the jihad policy adopted at the beginning of the war and which sought to put an end to…
Negotiating power and authority in the desert
This article explores the techniques and strategies used by Ottoman authorities to control the Bedouin with a specific focus on the province of Hijaz between 1840 and 1908. Using primary sources from the Ottoman and British archives, it argues that the Ottoman Empire developed a ‘politics of negotiation’ towards the tribes in its attempt to secure cities and major pilgrimage and trade routes against tribal attack. The principal agents of the empi…
War and State Formation in Syria
During the First World War, Cemal Pasha attempted to establish direct control over Syrian and thereby reaffirm Ottoman authority there through various policies of control, including the abolishment of local intermediaries. Elaborating on these Ottoman policies of control, this book assesses Cemal Pasha’s policies towards different political groups in Syrian society, including; Arabists, Zionists, Christian clergymen and Armenian immigrants. The a…
Visions of Islamic Unity
During the First World War, the Ottomans undertook a pan-Islamism propaganda campaign through the newspaper al-Sharq (published by Djemal Pasha in Damascus) to motivate its Arab subjects to support the Ottoman struggle against the Entente powers. To this end, many articles and news items appeared in al-Sharq to inspire Muslim unity around the figure of the caliph. Unity was presented as a crucial part of saving Muslims; disasters were predicted s…
From “notable Syrians” to “ordinary Anatolians
This article examines an important attempt at the political engineering undertaken in Syria during the Great War. It focuses on the experience of the Arabs exiled to Anatolia by Cemal Pasha to redesign Syrian society in line with the Committee of Union and Progress’ idea of empire, which imagined an authoritarian regime. The members of the Arabist parties were removed from Syria to eliminate their contemporaneous and future resistance to the emer…
Negotiating power and authority in the desert
This article explores the techniques and strategies used by Ottoman authorities to control the Bedouin with a specific focus on the province of Hijaz between 1840 and 1908. Using primary sources from the Ottoman and British archives, it argues that the Ottoman Empire developed a ‘politics of negotiation’ towards the tribes in its attempt to secure cities and major pilgrimage and trade routes against tribal attack. The principal agents of the empi…
The Holy War in Syria
This article aims to analyse the importance of the Egyptian campaign to Ottoman policy in the First World War. It seeks to add to our knowledge of the Ottoman war experience by putting the focus on the empire’s preparations for conquering Egypt and by giving priority to understand the aims of the expedition. The expedition itself is placed within the context of the jihad policy adopted at the beginning of the war and which sought to put an end to…
War and State Formation in Syria
During the First World War, Cemal Pasha attempted to establish direct control over Syrian and thereby reaffirm Ottoman authority there through various policies of control, including the abolishment of local intermediaries. Elaborating on these Ottoman policies of control, this book assesses Cemal Pasha’s policies towards different political groups in Syrian society, including; Arabists, Zionists, Christian clergymen and Armenian immigrants. The a…
Visions of Islamic Unity
During the First World War, the Ottomans undertook a pan-Islamism propaganda campaign through the newspaper al-Sharq (published by Djemal Pasha in Damascus) to motivate its Arab subjects to support the Ottoman struggle against the Entente powers. To this end, many articles and news items appeared in al-Sharq to inspire Muslim unity around the figure of the caliph. Unity was presented as a crucial part of saving Muslims; disasters were predicted s…
Negotiating power and authority in the desert
This article explores the techniques and strategies used by Ottoman authorities to control the Bedouin with a specific focus on the province of Hijaz between 1840 and 1908. Using primary sources from the Ottoman and British archives, it argues that the Ottoman Empire developed a ‘politics of negotiation’ towards the tribes in its attempt to secure cities and major pilgrimage and trade routes against tribal attack. The principal agents of the empi…
The Holy War in Syria
This article aims to analyse the importance of the Egyptian campaign to Ottoman policy in the First World War. It seeks to add to our knowledge of the Ottoman war experience by putting the focus on the empire’s preparations for conquering Egypt and by giving priority to understand the aims of the expedition. The expedition itself is placed within the context of the jihad policy adopted at the beginning of the war and which sought to put an end to…
The tribal partners of empire in Arabia
This article is about an aspect of the Ottoman-Rashidi partnership in the late Ottoman Empire that deeply influenced the order of things in Arabia and resulted in both the Ottomans and the Rashidis becoming more significant actors in regional politics. The main argument is that this partnership made a great contribution to the visibly increasing Ottoman influence in Najd (i.e., central Arabia) and the Persian Gulf in the late nineteenth and early…
Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle E…
Negotiating Empire in the Middle East
Relocating the Arabs in Turkish Historiography
The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed remarkable publications in Turkish intellectual life decoding and deconstructing the official interpretation of Turkey's history. Many books with a revisionist perspective have been published examining the different periods of Ottoman history. The last decade of the Ottoman period and early Republican history have naturally been the focus of the greatest proportion of historical works as…
From “notable Syrians” to “ordinary Anatolians
This article examines an important attempt at the political engineering undertaken in Syria during the Great War. It focuses on the experience of the Arabs exiled to Anatolia by Cemal Pasha to redesign Syrian society in line with the Committee of Union and Progress’ idea of empire, which imagined an authoritarian regime. The members of the Arabist parties were removed from Syria to eliminate their contemporaneous and future resistance to the emer…
Channeling Globalization, Building Empire
This essay examines the integration of Gaza's agricultural production into global markets during the late Ottoman period, focusing on the interplay between state building and economic globalization.While contemporary attention to Gaza centers on its humanitarian crisis, historical scholarship on the region remains limited.Addressing this gap, M. Talha iek's study explores how the Ottoman state channeled Gaza's cereal and animal production into th…
Tribal agency and the translocalization of the Middle East
This article argues that the agency of the Arab Bedouin across state borders played a remarkable role in the establishment of a translocal order containing Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It first examines the translocalization of tribal nationality highlighting their achievements to remain in a trans-border existence against French and British mandates, and, second, reveals the constructive roles played by tribes in the establishment of a …
Ancient history (9 works) · History (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Ottoman empire (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (4 works)