I Enes Niziplioglu

PhD researcher in economic and legal history

About

I am a doctoral researcher in Middle Eastern studies. My research lies at the intersection of legal anthropology, economic history, and historical demography. I study how legal institutions, household decision-making, and marriage practices shaped economic behaviour and social reproduction in the 19th & 20th century Middle East.I am particularly interested in household economics, microeconomic behaviour, and marriage markets: how families evaluated resources, risk, mobility, and kinship in making marital and economic decisions. Drawing on Islamic legal materials and extensive Arabic and Ottoman Turkish archival sources, I combine close reading of micro-level records with social-scientific and quantitative methods. A central part of my work involves constructing large-scale historical datasets from marriage contracts, court registers, and related documentary sources.My current research uses late Ottoman Palestine as its principal empirical field, while contributing to broader comparative debates about law, markets, and demography.

Research & data

(working paper) Niziplioglu, E. et. Patriarchy and Gender Inequality in Late Ottoman Palestine (1880s-1910s): Spousal Age Gaps In A Multi-Layered Society http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6071829(dataset) large scale (+7,300) Marriage Contracts & Formation from late Ottoman Palestine (to be published on Zenodo)

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Berlin, Germany