Research Catalog

Title

Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition / Norman Itzkowitz.

Author

Itzkowitz, Norman

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980, c1972.

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Details

Description

x, 117, vii p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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."

Series Statement

Phoenix book

Subjects

• 1288-1918
• History
• Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Islam > Turkey

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Reprint of the ed. published by Knopf, New York, in series: Studies in world civilization.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 111-114.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. From Emirate to Empire -- Turkish Migration -- Seljuks -- Seljuks of Rum -- The Emirate of Osman -- Orhon -- Ottoman Methods of Conquest -- Bajazet the Thunderbolt -- Bajazet's Legacy -- Recovery and Renewed Conquest -- Mohammad the Conqueror -- Istanbul -- Bajazet II -- Selim the Grim -- Suleiman the Magnificent -- 2. Ottoman Society and Institutions -- Steppe, Ghazi, and Class -- Askeris and Reaya -- Timars and Timar-holders -- Provincial Structure -- Provincial Administration -- The Ghulam System -- The Grand Vizier and the Divan -- The Bureaucracy -- Justice -- The True Ottomans -- Social Mobility -- 3. The Post-Suleimanic Age -- The Muscovy Menace -- Conflict in North Africa -- Conflict in the East -- Conflict in the West -- Back to the East -- Ottoman Succession -- Sultanate of the Women -- The Kuprili Era -- Second Siege of Vienna -- Aftermath of 1683 -- 4. Ottoman Consciousness -- The Circle of Equity -- Disruption in the Timar System -- Expansion of the Janissary Corps -- Sekbans and Celalis -- Causes -- The Kuprili Era in Perspective -- The Historian Naima -- The Medical Analogy -- Eighteenth-Century Success -- Ottoman Knowledge of Europe -- Success Breeds Failure -- The Ottoman-Russian War -- Selim III -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Index.

ISBN

0226388069

LCCN

^^^79023386^//r86

OCLC

• 5674984
• SCSB-10035962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library