Political Context of the 11th-16th centuries Anatolia Shaped Medrese Education and It’s Architecture

This research analyzes the political structures of pre-Ottoman and classical Ottoman Anatolia and examines how the political structures of these two periods shaped and changed the medrese architecture and education. In this context the pre-Ottoman fragmentary political structure and along with this structure the medrese as an institution of this period are discussed. The classical Ottoman political structure and it’s relation with medrese are also examined. In the final part of this study, the impact of the political structures on the medrese architecture and education is studied with a comparative approach. This thesis aims to present whether there was a relationship and what was the extent of this relationship between the political structures of these periods and medrese architecture and education.