Profile

Enes Niziplioglu completed his Bachelor’s degree at Istanbul Sehir University in Islamic Studies (2020), Istanbul/Turkey. During his Bachelor´s he did three summer semesters: in Beirut, Lebanon (2017), in Washington DC, USA (2018) and lastly in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019). Then, he obtained his Master´s degree in history at Bogazici University (2023), Istanbul/Turkey where he wrote his thesis on the subject of households and mansions of Ulema during the early Modern and Late Ottoman periods. He also worked at Bogazici University as a teaching assistant for two-years. Since November 2023, he has been working as a research assistant in the ERC project “Late Ottoman Palestinians (LOOP)”.

Research Interests

His academic interests are economic and social history of Ottoman Middle East, Islamic studies, history of capitalism, and gender studies. In his thesis, he examines marriage contracts and divorce settlements in late Ottoman Palestine (1860–1917) as economic institutions through which households negotiated wealth, managed risk, and positioned themselves amid Tanzimat reforms, land commodification, and market integration. Drawing on quantitative analysis of several thousand marriage contracts and divorce settlements from shariʿa court records, marriage and divorce registers, his study aims to reconstruct how Palestinian families—in both urban and rural contexts—deployed marriage strategically to secure property, contest or adopt gendered hierarchies, and adapt to accelerating legal and economic transformation. Similarly, his study also aims to shed light on how ordinary households reacted to macro-economic shocks such as World War I and fiscal crisis.

Publications

(2025) Niziplioglu, Enes, Sarah Buessow, Olaf Berg, and Johann Buessow. “Marriage, wealth, and social networking: A case study of marriages in Gaza in the 1900s. LOOP – Late Ottoman Palestinians. 

 (2025) Niziplioglu, Ibrahim Enes and Baten, Jorg and Büssow, Johann and Büssow-Schmitz, Sarah and Szołtysek, Mikołaj. working paper. “Patriarchy And Gender Inequality In Late Ottoman Palestine (1880s-1910s): Spousal Age Gaps In A Multi-Layered Society (January 14, 2026) https://ssrn.com/abstract=6071829 

(2025) Niziplioglu, Enes, forthcoming. “Marriage and Practices of Mahr in Artas: A Comparative Case Study”. LOOP – Late Ottoman Palestinians.

Conferences & Workshops

2025 (planned). Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, Center Marc Bloch and The Middle East in Europe (EUME), 8-10 July 2025, Berlin, Germany 

Presentation title: Settlers, Spouses, and Social Mobility: “Yabancilar” and Matrimony in late Ottoman Palestine (1880s to 1910s) 

Research Paper/Presentation title: Mahr, Matrimony, and Class Identities in late Ottoman Jerusalem (1905-1917) 

2024. Linking Persons and Places from Near Eastern History Hands-on-Dat Workshop, 15-17 November 2024, Goethe University, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany 

Presentation title: Matching Locations from Late Ottoman Palestinians Registers 

2024. HTR Ottoman Hackathon: Developing Handwritten Text Recognition Tools for the Analysis of Late Ottoman Population Registers, 8-12 September 2024, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2020 Workshop on Waqfnames, advanced reading in Ottoman Turkish, Sahn Saman Madrasa, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

2019 Workshop on Ottoman Political Thought, advanced readings of primary sources in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, ISAM, Center for Islamic Studies, Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey