Format:
Online-Ressource (314 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107034426
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Content:
A revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-1566), examining the life of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Figures and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations, Transliteration, Dates, and Pronunciation; Introduction; Revisiting Celalzade Mustafa; Ottoman Empire Building and Early Modern Eurasia; Part One Celalzade Mustafa and the New Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Eurasia; 1 The Formative Years (1490-1523); Entering the Ottoman Ruling Elite; The Education of a Muslim Boy; The World that Selim Made: The Ottomans Join Early Modern Eurasia; A Wise Career Choice at a Favorable Moment; The Perils of the Sultanate: Süleyman Comes to Power; Süleyman Proves Himself: The Capture of Rhodes
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Reshuffling at the Top: brahim Becomes Grand Vizier2 The Secretarys Progress (1523-1534); Presenting the Sultan and the Grand Vizier to the Ottoman Public; An Ottoman Grand Vizier in Action: The Egyptian Inspection; The Downfall of the Hungarian Kingdom; A Clash of Political Theologies: Rebellions in Anatolia and a Heresy Trial in Istanbul; Who Is the "Master of the Auspicious Conjunction"? Süleyman versus Ferdinand of Austria; Who Is the Last Roman Emperor? Süleyman versus Charles V; 3 The Empire and Its Chancellor (1534-1553)
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Süleymans First Eastern Campaign: Sunni Triumphalism versus Logistical ProblemsA Grand Vizier Dies, a Chancellor Rises; Filling brahims Void: New Ventures on the European Front; The Hungarian Question Comes Back with a Vengeance; The Safavid Question Reemerges: The Alqas Mirza Affair; 4 Toward the End (1553-1567); A Princely Demise: The Execution of Prince Mustafa; Toward the First Ottoman-Safavid Settlement: A War of Letters; The Amasya Settlement: Mutual Recognition or War Weariness?; Mustafas Last Years in Ottoman Service
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The Construction of the Süleymaniye Mosque: The Epitome of Ottoman Imperial SunnismThe End of the Süleymanic Era; From Bureaucrat to Historian and Moralist: Mustafa in Retirement; Part Two Narrating, Imagining, and Managing the Empire; 5 Narrating the Empire; Ottoman Historiography in the Sixteenth Century: Tropes and Trends; Introducing Tabakat; Writing and Reading Tabakat; The First Objective: In Praise of Süleyman; The Second Objective: The Empire as System; The Third Objective: History as Personal Testimony; An Unfinished or Interminable Work?
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Reassessing Selim: Selimname as Mustafas Final TestimonySelimname as Political Intervention; Selimname, Memory, Nostalgia; 6 Imagining the Empire; Changing Images of Süleyman: From Messianic Conqueror to Pious Lawmaker; A New Realm for a New Empire; The Others of the Empire; The Mamluks of Egypt: The Anti-Ottomans?; The Christians of Europe: Between Prejudice and Pragmatism; The Safavids: The Power of Intra-Islamic Controversies; 7 Managing the Empire; New Men in Ottoman Service: The Rise of the Secretaries; An Office to Manage the Empire: The Rise of the Chancellor
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Mustafa as a Political Writer and Moralist
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139616881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107034426
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman : Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World
Language:
English
Keywords:
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