Book Details
Orange Code:95873
Paperback:551 pages
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1. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire2. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age3. The law of the land4. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries5. Imarets6. Sufis in the age of state-building and confessionalization7. Royal and other households8. ‘On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan’: the construction of a topos9. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as Renaissance go-betweens10. Ottoman languages11. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference12. The Kızılbaş of Syria and Ottoman Shiism13. The reign of violence: the celalis c.1550-170014. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period15. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary16. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries17. Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire, 1453-160018. The peripheralization of the Ottoman Algerian elite19. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam20. Masters, servants and slaves: household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo21. Subject to the sultan’s approval: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul22. Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo23. ‘Guided by the Almighty’: the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman empire, 1752-624. The right to choice: Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in Ottoman Greece25. Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects26. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-180027. The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East28. The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c.1600-185029. Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world: conflict or partnership?30. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis
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The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds.Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Istanbul? Ottoman authority might have been established largely by military conquest, but how was it maintained for so long, over such distances and so many disparate societies? How did provincial regions relate to the imperial centre and what role was played in this by local elites? What did it mean in practice, for ordinary people, to be part of an ‘Ottoman world’?Arranged in five thematic sections, with contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses these questions, examining aspects of the social and socio-ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire, and offers a combination of broad synthesis and detailed investigation that is both informative and intended to raise points for future debate. The Ottoman World provides a unique coverage of the Ottoman empire, widening its scope beyond Istanbul to the edges of the empire, and offers key coverage for students and scholars alike.
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