ISBN:
9789004442351
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (515 pages)
Series Statement:
The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Ser.
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Abstract:
This book is dedicated to Metin Kunt, which primarily examines diverse cases of changes throughout Ottoman history. Both specialist and non-specialist readers will explore and understand the complexities concerning the longevity as well as the tenacity of the Ottoman Empire.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors -- Metin Kunt: Life and Work -- A Representative List of Metin Kunt's Publications -- Introduction: The Issue of Transformation withinthe Ottoman Empire -- Part 1 Ottoman Historiography and Reflections -- Chapter 1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422) -- Chapter 2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances -- Chapter 3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Ma ʾşûkî (d.1539) -- Chapter 4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography -- Part 2 Ottomans - Culture and Careers -- Chapter 5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Şevkî Çelebi's Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan -- Chapter 6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua -- Chapter 7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and Bey -- Chapter 8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608 -- Chapter 9 A Poet's Warning: Veysî's Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 10 From the 'Scribe of Satan' to the 'Master of Belâgât': Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricismin the Ottoman Empire -- Part 3 Law, Religion and Political Thought -- Chapter 12 In Search of the Ancient Law or Kānûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought -- Chapter 13 Between a 'Brilliant Retreat' and a 'Tragic Defeat': Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna.
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