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Format: 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages)

ISBN: 0-7914-8726-1 , 1-4175-2407-3

Series Statement: SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East

Content: Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Front Matter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , The Debate to Date -- , Wittek Revisited -- , Wittek Revisited -- , What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans? -- , Toward a New Explanation -- , Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- , His Utilization of Ahmedi’s İskendernâme The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism—The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite -- , The Nature of the Early Ottoman State -- , Wittek’s Reading of the Titles Conferred on Orhan in the 1337 Bursa Inscription Compared with the Actual Titles Recorded -- , Titles Used by the Ottoman Dynasty in the Fourteenth and Early-Fifteenth Century -- , Wives and Mothers of the Ottoman Dynasty in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century -- , Provincial Governorships Held by Princes of the Ottoman Dynasty in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7914-5636-6

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7914-5635-8

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Bibliografie

DOI: 10.1515/9780791487266

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