Abstract
Provincial Medreses on the Eve of Ottoman Modernization: Kastamonu Medreses and Medrese Life in Provinces
In Ottoman Empire, medreses are generally analyzed from respect of ilmiye organisation and center of goverment Istanbul. There are scant of studies about the medreses in the provinces. In this study, Kastamonu by being taken as a center, for the mids of 19. century, just before the modernization era, curriculum, theaching metods, socio-economic roots and situation of mudarris and students and the changes that occured in historcal process are discussed from the point of center-periphery relations.<
Keywords
Kastamonu Medreses, Mudarris, Student, Rural
