Yavuz Aykan
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Boğaziçi University
Turkey
Biography
Yavuz Aykan is currently working as Assistant Professor (Department of History) in BoÄŸaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Research Interest
Ottoman & Islamic legal and social history (1300 -1800); the genealogies of the Ottoman legal structures, sovereignty and state-making; history of legal categories in the early modern Ottoman Empire; social and legal history of slavery and kinship in the early modern Ottoman Empire; legal pluralism and gender history; gender and legal theory.
Publications
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“Unacknowledged memory: The nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the ambivalence of national memory in the Turkish Republic,†in Christine Allison and Philip K. Kreyenbroek (eds.), Remembering the Past in Iranian Societies (Harrassowitz, 2013)
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“Property between life and death: A legal debate over the property of a missing person (gâib) in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Amid,†article in press in Huri İslamoğlu and Safa Saraçoğlu (eds.), Justice, statecraft and law: A New Ottoman Legal History (Syracuse University Press)
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“On Freedom, Kinship, and the Market: Reflections on Property and Law in the Ottoman Slave System,†article in press for the next issue of Quaderni Storici titled Fuori mercato: appartenenza locale e beni nel Mediterraneo (Spring 2017)
