Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806110608
Administration, society and intellectual life of the Turkish Empire during the two centuries that followed the capture of Constantinople in 1453.
Author : Norman Itzkowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 022609801X
This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-century confrontation with a rapidly modernizing Europe. Itzkowitz delineates the fundamental institutions of the Ottoman state, the major divisions within the society, and the basic ideas on government and social structure. Throughout, Itzkowitz emphasizes the Ottomans' own conception of their historical experience, and in so doing penetrates the surface view provided by the insights of Western observers of the Ottoman world to the core of Ottoman existence.
Author : Ga ́bor A ́goston
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1438110251
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.
Author : Jason Goodwin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1466874872
"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times Book Review Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one.
Author : Stanford Jay Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521291637
Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808 is the first book of the two-volume History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. It describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the Crimea across North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. The volume sweeps away the accumulated prejudices of centuries and describes the empire of the sultans as a living, changing society, dominated by the small multinational Ottoman ruling class led by the sultan, but with a scope of government so narrow that the subjects, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, were left to carry on their own lives, religions, and traditions with little outside interference.
Author : Doç. Dr. Raşit GÜNDOĞDU
Publisher : Rumuz Yayınları
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 6055112159
The Ottomans, who patronaged the muslim and non-muslim nations from Indonesia to Spain, from the Crimea to Yemeni always pursued justice and brought it to the lands they conquered, as well as development and civilization without any language, religion and race discrimination. Only the Ottomans was bestowed with establishing a government ruled by 36 sultans, lasted for 622 years uninterrupted in the history of the world. The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, from Osman Ghazi to Vahdettin Khan who ascended the throne had done important works as much as possible to keep the state on its feet, for the public welfare and content. Today, as the archives are opened and new documents are emerged, many secrets about the sultans and their periods come out.
Author : Baki Tezcan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521519497
This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship.
Author : Sevket Pamuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521441971
An important book on the monetary history of the Ottoman empire by a leading economic historian.
Author : Edhem Eldem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521643047
Studies of early-modern Islamic cities have stressed the atypical or the idiosyncratic. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that they were in some way substandard or deviant. The first purpose of this volume is to normalize Ottoman cities, to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they resembled cities generally and how, on the other, their specific histories individualized them. The second purpose is to challenge the previous literature and to negotiate an agenda for future study. By considering the narrative histories of Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, the book offers a departure from the piecemeal methods of previous studies, emphasizing their importance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and highlighting their essentially Ottoman character. While the essays provide an overall view, each can be approached separately. Their exploration of the sources and the agendas of those who have conditioned scholarly understanding of these cities will make them essential student reading.
Author : Bruce Masters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107067790
The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire.
