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Firat Yasa
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Düzce Üniversitesi-Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi
Tarih Bölümü, C Blok, Ofis no: 408 Konuralp Campus
Düzce Türkiye 81010
Turkey
ABOUT
Firat Yasa received his Ph.D. from Sakarya University in 2017. His main research interest is social history of Crimean Tatars in the 17th Century. He has studied various Italian archives during postgraduate and Ph.D. research. He published an editorial book: Slavery in the Ottoman Empire: Trade, Captivity and Daily Life, Tezkire Press, Ankara 2017. His publications focus on a great many phenomena, including violence, fear, emotion, death, loyalty, and status in the pre-modern period of Crimean society using mainly Crimean court records. Some of them: “From the Kitchen of the Khan to the Slaves of Bakhchysarai: Kilercibasi Mehmed Agha in the Centre of Social Relations”, Bilig, Vol. 81, 2017, pp. 27-49; “Desperation, Hopelessness, and Suicide: An Initial Consideration of Self-Murder by Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Crimean Society”, Turkish Historical Review, vol. 9/2, 2018, pp. 198-211. For the other publications, see: https://duzce.academia.edu/F?ratYa?a
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Islamic Law
Gender/Women's Studies
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Caucasus
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Slavery
Crimean Khanate
History Of Emotions
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (intermediate)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2017 | History | Sakarya University
Abstracts
Born and Bred in Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, Social Reality and Cultural Identity