Research Catalog

Title

The Ottoman world / edited by Christine Woodhead.

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodhead, Christine, 1952-

Description

xx, 536 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.

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. This book examines aspects of the social and socio-ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire, and offers a combination of broad synthesis and detailed investigation that is both informative and intended to raise points for future debate.

Series Statement

The Routledge worlds

Uniform Title

Routledge worlds.

Subjects

• Turkey
• 1288-1918
• History
• Turkey > Civilization > 1288-1918
• Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Osmanisches Reich
• Civilization

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Christine Woodhead -- Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman Empire / Reşat Kasaba -- The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age / Rhoads Murphey -- The law of the land / Colin Imber -- A Kadi court in the Balkans : Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Rossitsa Gradeva -- Imarets / Amy Singer -- Sufis in the age of state-building and confessionalization / Derin Terzioǧlu -- Royal and other households / Metin Kunt -- "On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan" : the construction of a topos / Hakan T. Karateke -- Of translation and empire : sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as renaissance go-betweens / Tijana Krstić -- Ottoman languages / Christine Woodhead -- Ethnicity, race, religion and social class : Ottoman markers of difference / Baki Tezcan -- The Kizilbaş of Syria and Ottoman Shiism / Stefan Winter -- The reign of violence : the Celalis c. 1550-1700 / Oktay Özel --
• Between universalistic claims and reality : Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period / Dariusz Kołodziejczyk -- Defending and administering the frontier : the case of Ottoman Hungary / Gábor Ágoston -- The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Nelida Fuccaro -- Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1600 / Nükhet Varlik -- The peripheralization of the Ottoman-Algerian elite / Tal Shuval -- On the edges of an Ottoman world : non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam / İsmail Hakki Kadi -- Masters, servants and slaves : household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles L. Wilkins -- Subject to the sultan's approval : seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo / Nelly Hanna -- "Guided by the Almighty" : the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman Empire, 1752-6 / Jan Schmidt -- The right to choice : Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in Ottoman Greece / Eugenia Kermeli -- Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects / Başak Tuǧ -- Forms and forums of expression : Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800 / Tülay Artan -- The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East / Ariel Salzmann -- The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime, c.1600-1850 / Michael Ursinus -- Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world : conflict or partnership? / Ali Yaycioglu -- The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period : a socio-political analysis / Ehud R. Toledano.

ISBN

• 9780415444927
• 0415444926
• 9780203142851
• 0203142853

LCCN

2011027444

OCLC

• ocn457164407
• 457164407
• SCSB-1642765

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library