Erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda cinsiyetlendirilmiş öfke

This thesis examines the conceptualization, expression, and regulation of anger in the early modern Ottoman society, with a particular focus on its gendered dimensions. Drawing on judicial court registers from Anatolian towns spanning to sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, fatwas, and one of the prominent ethics books of the time, Ahlak-ı Alai by Kınalızade Ali Çelebi, a sixteenth-century Ottoman intellectual, the study investigates how anger was defined, expressed, and regulated in both ethical discourse and everyday practice. Rather than treating emotions as universal or ahistorical categories, this work approaches anger as a culturally constructed and historically contingent concept, shared by moral, legal, and social frameworks producing gendered emotional practices. I argue that the conceptualization of anger in early modern Ottoman society was gendered and that this gendered conceptualization was not only evident in prescriptive philosophical literature but also manifested in everyday legal disputes and social interactions documented in court records and fatwas. The analysis reveals how different expectations and regulations regarding the emotion of anger were applied to men and women, reflecting broader social hierarchies and gender roles. By tracing both the conceptualization and practical manifestations of anger, this thesis contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the history of emotions of early modern Ottoman society. It highlights the value of integrating emotions in the history of the Ottoman Empire, placing gender at the center of this analysis. Keywords: anger, gazab, history of emotions, history of anger, gender