Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia
Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780521254472
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The Ottoman City Between East and West
Author: Edhem Eldem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521643047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age
Author: I M Kunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1317900588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as conqueror, he stamped his name on an age. These specially-commissioned essays by leading experts examine Suleyman's reign in its wider political and diplomatic context, both Ottoman and European. The contributors are: Peter Burke; Geza David; Suraiaya Faroqhi; Peter Holt; Colin Imber; Salih Uzbaran; Metin Kunt; Christine Woodhead; and Ann Williams.
Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia
Author: Ebru Boyar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-16
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9004466983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Centred on the socio-economic life of Anatolia in the Ottoman period, this volume examines aspects of production, local and international trade, consumption and the role of the state, both at a local and a central level.
The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia
Author: Oktay Özel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9004311246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia, by introducing novel source material, detailed avârız registers, Oktay Özel offers a fresh look at the Ottoman seventeenth-century crisis by studying demographic changes and collective violence in rural Amasya.
Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia
Author: Başak Tuğ
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9004338659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Politics of Honor Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order of mid-eighteenth-century Anatolia through petitions and court records to reveal the new and existing mechanisms of social surveillance to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial “disorder”.
Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town
Author: Hülya Canbakal
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9004154566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph provides a fresh insight into society, urban government and elite power in a little-studied region of the Ottoman Empire bridging Anatolia and Syria.
Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian
Author: Reem A. Meshal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9774166175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority. These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.
State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Huri Islamoglu - Inan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1994-07-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9004660836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire studies the dynamics of Ottoman peasant economy in the sixteenth century. First, it shows that contrary to the conventional wisdom about the 'stationariness'of the Asian agrarian economies, Ottoman peasant economy witnessed substantial growth in response to population increase, urban commercial expansion and to increased taxation demands. Second, the book argues that economic development did not take place independently of political structures, of the state. This meant that in the light of the fiscal and legitimation concerns of the Ottoman state and contrary to the assumptions of the models of economic development, changes in population and in commercial demand did not result in the disruption of the integrity of the small peasant holding as the primary unit of production. The book develops these arguments in the context of a detailed empirical study of the economic trends, of the state rules or institutions that embodied the relations of revenue extraction, and of exchange in Ottoman Anatolia.
Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Ariel Salzmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789004108875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.
