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Format: Online-Ressource (495 p)

ISBN: 9780691052885

Series Statement: Princeton Studies on the Near East

Content: From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Usage; List of Special Abbreviations; ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND THE SCRIBAL SERVICE AS ELEMENTS OF STATE AND SOCIETY; The Sublime Porte and the Scribal Service as Elements of the Imperial ""Center""; The Ruling Class as an Element of the Broader Society: Problems of Social Organization; Conclusion; TWO: THE EVOLUTION OF THE RULING CLASS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCRIBAL SERVICE , The Evolution of the Ruling Class in the Traditional State: A Problem in Historical InterpretationThe Evolution of the Ruling Class in the Era of Reform: Would the Scribal Service Remain Preeminent?; Conclusion: The Developmental Cycles of the Ruling Class and the Political Periods of the Nineteenth Century; THREE: THE IMPACT OF IMPERIAL DECLINE ON THE EMERGENT SCRIBAL SERVICE: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND ITS OFFICIALS ON THE EVE OF REFORM; Patterns of Organization and Procedure at the Sublime Porte on the Eve of Reform; Social Dimensions of the Late Traditional Scribal Service , Conclusion: The Efendi-Turned-Pasa in Comparative PerspectiveFOUR: REASSERTION OF THE SULTANATE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CIVIL BUREAUCRACY; Contemporary Perceptions of the Need for Reform; Reform in the Traditional Scribal Offices of the Sublime Porte; The Foundation of the Foreign Ministry and the Formation of a Modernist Scribal Elite; The Later Reforms of Mahmud II: An Autocratic Sultanor a ""Patriciate of the Pen""?; The Record of a Half-Century of Bureaucratic Reform: Characteristics and Limitations of Modernization in the Ottoman Empire , FIVE: THE CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC HEGEMONY OF THE TANZIMATStructural Weaknesses of the Civil-Bureaucratic System of the Tanzimat; The Growth of a Bureaucracy Freed of Outside Control; Reform and Regulation of the Civil Bureaucracy; The Sociocultural Impact of the Tanzimat on the Civil Bureaucracy; Conclusion; SIX: RESTORING POLITICAL BALANCE: THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD AND RETURN TO SULTANIC DOMINANCE; Divergent Tendencies in Efforts at the Restoration of Political Balance; Organizational Development of the Sublime Porte during the First Constitutional Period and the Reign of Abd Ül-Hamid , Further Steps toward Regulation and SystematizationConclusion; SEVEN: ONCE MORE TOWARD REDEFINITION OF THE POLITICAL BALANCE; Dismantling the Hamidian System and Purging the Civil Bureaucracy; The Organizational Development of the Sublime Porte to the Beginning of World War I; Regulation in Other Fields of Policy and Procedure; Conclusion; EIGHT: ONE AND ONE-THIRD CENTURIES OF CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC REFORM; APPENDIX: BUDGETARY ""ALLOCATIONS"" FOR AGENCIES OF THE SUBLIME PORTE IN SELECTED YEARS; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400820092

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691052885

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire : The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922

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Format: 1 online resource (496 p.)

Edition: Course Book

ISBN: 9781400820092

Series Statement: Princeton Studies on the Near East

Content: From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name was used, or what aspect of the Ottoman government it properly designated. What was the real Sublime Porte? Was it an organization? A building? No more, literally, than a door or gateway? What about it was important enough to cause the name to be remembered?In one sense, the purpose of this book is to answer these questions. Of course, it will also do much more and will, in the process, move quickly onto a plane quite different from the exoticism just invoked. For to study the bureaucratic complex properly known as the Sublime Porte, and to analyze its evolution and that of the body of men who staffed it, is to explore a problem of tremendous significance for the development of the administrative institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic lands in general, and in some senses the entire non-Westerrn world.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , List of Figures -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes on Usage -- , List of Special Abbreviations -- , ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND THE SCRIBAL SERVICE AS ELEMENTS OF STATE AND SOCIETY -- , TWO. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RULING CLASS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCRIBAL SERVICE -- , THREE. THE IMPACT OF IMPERIAL DECLINE ON THE EMERGENT SCRIBAL SERVICE: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND ITS OFFICIALS ON THE EVE OF REFORM -- , FOUR. REASSERTION OF THE SULTANATE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CIVIL BUREAUCRACY -- , FIVE. THE CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC HEGEMONY OF THE TANZIMAT -- , SIX. RESTORING POLITICAL BALANCE: THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD AND RETURN TO SULTANIC DOMINANCE -- , SEVEN. ONCE MORE TOWARD REDEFINITION OF THE POLITICAL BALANCE -- , EIGHT. ONE AND ONE-THIRD CENTURIES OF CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC REFORM -- , APPENDIX. BUDGETARY "ALLOCATIONS" FOR AGENCIES OF THE SUBLIME PORTE IN SELECTED YEARS -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400820092

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Format: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 455 pages) : , illustrations

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ISBN: 1-283-53982-9 , 9786613852274 , 1-4008-2009-X

Series Statement: Princeton studies on the Near East

Content: From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name was used, or what aspect of the Ottoman government it properly designated. What was the real Sublime Porte? Was it an organization? A building? No more, literally, than a door or gateway? What about it was important enough to cause the name to be remembered?In one sense, the purpose of this book is to answer these questions. Of course, it will also do much more and will, in the process, move quickly onto a plane quite different from the exoticism just invoked. For to study the bureaucratic complex properly known as the Sublime Porte, and to analyze its evolution and that of the body of men who staffed it, is to explore a problem of tremendous significance for the development of the administrative institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic lands in general, and in some senses the entire non-Westerrn world.

Note: Front matter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , List of Figures -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes on Usage -- , List of Special Abbreviations -- , ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND THE SCRIBAL SERVICE AS ELEMENTS OF STATE AND SOCIETY -- , TWO. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RULING CLASS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCRIBAL SERVICE -- , THREE. THE IMPACT OF IMPERIAL DECLINE ON THE EMERGENT SCRIBAL SERVICE: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND ITS OFFICIALS ON THE EVE OF REFORM -- , FOUR. REASSERTION OF THE SULTANATE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CIVIL BUREAUCRACY -- , FIVE. THE CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC HEGEMONY OF THE TANZIMAT -- , SIX. RESTORING POLITICAL BALANCE: THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD AND RETURN TO SULTANIC DOMINANCE -- , SEVEN. ONCE MORE TOWARD REDEFINITION OF THE POLITICAL BALANCE -- , EIGHT. ONE AND ONE-THIRD CENTURIES OF CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC REFORM -- , APPENDIX. BUDGETARY "ALLOCATIONS" FOR AGENCIES OF THE SUBLIME PORTE IN SELECTED YEARS -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-05288-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400820092