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1 online resource (551 pages) |
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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: Resat 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 |
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6. Sufis in the age of state-building and Confessionalization: Derin TerziogluPart 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 Krstic; 10. Ottoman languages: Christine Woodhead; 11. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference: Baki Tezcan; 12. The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism: Stefan Winter |
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13. The reign of violence: the celalis c.1550-1700: Oktay ÖzelPart 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 |
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19. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam: Ismail Hakki KadiPart IV: Ordinary People; 20. Masters, servants and slaves: household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo: Charles L. Wilkins; 21. Subject to the sultan's approval: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul: Suraiya Faroqhi; 22. Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo: Nelly Hanna; 23. 'Guided by the Almighty': the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman empire, 1752-6: Jan Schmidt |
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24. The right to choice: Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in Ottoman Greece: Eugenia Kermeli25. Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects: Basak Tug; 26. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800: Tülay Artan; Part V: Later Ottomans; 27. The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East: Ariel Salzmann; 28. The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c.1600-1850: Michael Ursinus; 29. Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world: conflict or partnership?: Ali Yaycioglu |
| Summary |
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 an |
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30. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis: Ehud R. Toledano |
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Print version record |
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History -- 1288-1918
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Civilization
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History
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
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Turkey -- Civilization -- 1288-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99003673
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136498954 |
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1136498958 |
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