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First Names and Political Change in Modern Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Richard W. Bulliet
Richard W. Bulliet
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Columbia University
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One of the few predictable opportunities for the exercise of free will that comes the way of most human beings is the bestowal of names upon their children. To be sure, local or national custom may legally restrict or otherwise limit the scope of that freedom in some cases; but by and large, there is normally some choice to be made, and the beneficiary of the choice, the child, is inevitably powerless to influence it.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 489 - 495
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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References

1 See, for example, Bulliet, R. W., ‘Conversion to Islam and the Emergence of a Muslim Society in Iran,’ in Levtzion, N., ed., Conversion to Islam (New York, 1978).Google Scholar

2 Kâzim, Öztürk, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Albümü, 23 Nisan, 1920–1914 Ekim, 1973 (Ankara, 1973).Google Scholar

3 Parliament members are listed in the appendix of Robert, Devereux, The First Ottoman Constitutional Period (Baltimore, 1963). Only the Muslim members have been counted.Google Scholar

4 It is debatable whether these later name samples are socially comparable, speaking of the parents, to the samples drawn from the Turkish parliaments. Geographical spread would be comparable for students in the Economics Faculty but not for the elementary school students. Unfortunately, tabulation totals only were available from Fatih Elementary School instead of the actual enrollment roster. This has limited the amount of analysis that could be done for 1967.

5 Stanford, J. Shaw and Ezel, Kural Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Vol. II (Cambridge, 1977), chap. 3.Google Scholar

6 Linguistic identification of names was facilitated by Kemal, Zeki Gençosman'sAnsikiopedik Türk Isimleri SÖzlüğü (Istanbul, 1975). My thanks to Professor Mükerrem Hiç, for procuring this book for me and for his helpful discussions of several matters raised in this article.Google Scholar