Format:
XX, 536 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780415444927
Series Statement:
The Routledge worlds
Content:
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.
Content:
Front Cover -- The Ottoman World -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Note on Turkish and technicalities -- Introduction: Christine Woodhead -- Part I: Foundations -- 1. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire: Reşat Kasaba -- 2. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age: Rhoads Murphey -- 3. The law of the land: Colin Imber -- 4. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Rossitsa Gradeva -- 5. Imarets: Amy Singer -- 6. Sufis in the age of state-building and Confessionalization: Derin Terzioğlu -- Part II: Ottomans and Others -- 7. Royal and other households: Metin Kunt -- 8. 'On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan': the construction of a topos: Hakan T. Karateke -- 9. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as Renaissance go-betweens: Tijana Krstić -- 10. Ottoman languages: Christine Woodhead -- 11. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference: Baki Tezcan -- 12. The Kizilbaş of Syria and Ottoman Shiism: Stefan Winter -- 13. The reign of violence: the celalis c.1550-1700: Oktay Özel -- Part III: The Wider Empire -- 14. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period: Dariusz Kotodziejczyk -- 15. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary: Gábor Ágoston -- 16. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Nelida Fuccaro -- 17. Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire, 1453-1600: Nükhet Varlik -- 18. The peripheralization of the Ottoman Algerian elite: Tal Shuval -- 19. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam: İsmail Hakki Kadi -- Part IV: Ordinary People.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203142851
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136498954
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781283434829
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415444927
Additional Edition:
Print version The Ottoman World
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Ottoman world London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2012 ISBN 9780415444927
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0415444926
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Osmanisches Reich
;
Geschichte
;
Kultur
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