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Book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation

Download or read book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation written by Kemal Çiçek and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdülaziz Bayındır [s.639-656] The "Kanunname of Mehmed II:" A Different Perspective / Baki Tezcan [s.657-665] The Sectarian Preference In The Ottoman Jurisprudence / Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman [s.666-675] The Judicial Privileges of Foreigners In The Ottoman Empire / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Saner Gönen [s.676-688] Ottoman Law and Its Transformation Reception and Constitutional System / Dr. Christian Rumph [s.691-704] The Codification of The Islamic-Ottoman Family Law and The Decree of "Hukuk-i Aile" / Prof. Dr. M. Akif Aydın [s.705-713] Ottoman Military Ottoman Military Organization, Arms, War Industry and Technology Ottoman Military Organization / Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Özcan [s.719-726] Fire Arms In The Ottoman State / Prof. Dr. Mücteba Ilgürel [s.727-734] Ottoman Maritime Arsenals and Ship-Building Technology In The 16th and 17th Centuries / Prof. Dr. İdris Bostan [s.735-744] Mehmed The Conqueror and Fire-Arms Technology / Dr. Salim Aydüz [s.745-749] The Janissary Corps In The Late 16th and - Early 17th Century: The First Attempt At Military Reform In The Ottoman Empire / Dr. Irina Petrosyan [s.750-760] Ottoman Wakf System Turkish Wakfs or Turkish System of Charities In The Ottoman Era / Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Yediyıldız [s.763-789] The Wakf In The Ottoman Period: A Social Policy Perspective / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazif Öztürk [s.790-800] Wakf Institutions In Bosnian Sancak Until The Beginning of The 17th Century / Hatidza Car-Drnda [s.801-812].

Book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation

Download or read book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation written by Kemal Çiçek and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdülaziz Bayındır [s.639-656] The "Kanunname of Mehmed II:" A Different Perspective / Baki Tezcan [s.657-665] The Sectarian Preference In The Ottoman Jurisprudence / Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman [s.666-675] The Judicial Privileges of Foreigners In The Ottoman Empire / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Saner Gönen [s.676-688] Ottoman Law and Its Transformation Reception and Constitutional System / Dr. Christian Rumph [s.691-704] The Codification of The Islamic-Ottoman Family Law and The Decree of "Hukuk-i Aile" / Prof. Dr. M. Akif Aydın [s.705-713] Ottoman Military Ottoman Military Organization, Arms, War Industry and Technology Ottoman Military Organization / Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Özcan [s.719-726] Fire Arms In The Ottoman State / Prof. Dr. Mücteba Ilgürel [s.727-734] Ottoman Maritime Arsenals and Ship-Building Technology In The 16th and 17th Centuries / Prof. Dr. İdris Bostan [s.735-744] Mehmed The Conqueror and Fire-Arms Technology / Dr. Salim Aydüz [s.745-749] The Janissary Corps In The Late 16th and - Early 17th Century: The First Attempt At Military Reform In The Ottoman Empire / Dr. Irina Petrosyan [s.750-760] Ottoman Wakf System Turkish Wakfs or Turkish System of Charities In The Ottoman Era / Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Yediyıldız [s.763-789] The Wakf In The Ottoman Period: A Social Policy Perspective / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazif Öztürk [s.790-800] Wakf Institutions In Bosnian Sancak Until The Beginning of The 17th Century / Hatidza Car-Drnda [s.801-812].

Book Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

Download or read book Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science written by G. Irzik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.D. under George Sarton at Harvard University. Since then, both disciplines have flourished in Turkey. The present book, which contains seventeen newly commissioned articles, aims to give a rich overview of the current state of research by Turkish philosophers and historians of science. Topics covered address issues in methodology, causation, and reduction, and include philosophy of logic and physics, philosophy of psychology and language, and Ottoman science studies. The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.

Book Science  Technology  and Learning in the Ottoman Empire

Download or read book Science Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire written by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers and studies collected here relate to the cultural, intellectual and scientific aspects of Ottoman history.

Book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation

Download or read book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation written by Kemal Çiçek and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdülaziz Bayındır [s.639-656] The "Kanunname of Mehmed II:" A Different Perspective / Baki Tezcan [s.657-665] The Sectarian Preference In The Ottoman Jurisprudence / Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman [s.666-675] The Judicial Privileges of Foreigners In The Ottoman Empire / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Saner Gönen [s.676-688] Ottoman Law and Its Transformation Reception and Constitutional System / Dr. Christian Rumph [s.691-704] The Codification of The Islamic-Ottoman Family Law and The Decree of "Hukuk-i Aile" / Prof. Dr. M. Akif Aydın [s.705-713] Ottoman Military Ottoman Military Organization, Arms, War Industry and Technology Ottoman Military Organization / Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Özcan [s.719-726] Fire Arms In The Ottoman State / Prof. Dr. Mücteba Ilgürel [s.727-734] Ottoman Maritime Arsenals and Ship-Building Technology In The 16th and 17th Centuries / Prof. Dr. İdris Bostan [s.735-744] Mehmed The Conqueror and Fire-Arms Technology / Dr. Salim Aydüz [s.745-749] The Janissary Corps In The Late 16th and - Early 17th Century: The First Attempt At Military Reform In The Ottoman Empire / Dr. Irina Petrosyan [s.750-760] Ottoman Wakf System Turkish Wakfs or Turkish System of Charities In The Ottoman Era / Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Yediyıldız [s.763-789] The Wakf In The Ottoman Period: A Social Policy Perspective / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazif Öztürk [s.790-800] Wakf Institutions In Bosnian Sancak Until The Beginning of The 17th Century / Hatidza Car-Drnda [s.801-812].

Book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation IV

Download or read book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation IV written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Life In Ottoman Civilisation The Ideology of The Sultanate and Ottoman Art / Prof. Dr. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu [s.3-8] Emir Sultan and His Erguvan Fasli / Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Algül [s.9-18] The Ottoman Shahzadah (Price’s) Sanjaks / Prof. Dr. Mustafa İsen [s.19-29] Reception of Turkish Culture and Art In Poland / Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Majda [s.30-35] The Ottomans and The Islamic Sacred Relics / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Beyoğlu [s.36-44] The Kinds, Subject and Nature of The ‘Surname’s / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Arslan [s.45-68] The Role of Dervish Lodges In The Development of Turkish Culture / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saim Savaş [s.69-77] The Clothing of Ottoman Women / Dr. Sevgi Gürtuna [s.78-92] Ottoman Cuisine / Nevin Halıcı [s.93-103] The Turks In Croatian During The Ottoman Period / Prof. Dr. Yusuf Hamzaoğlu [s.104-112] Cumanian Anthroponymics In Bulgaria During The 15th Century / Prof. Dr. Valery Stoyanov [s.113-126] Language: Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish / Prof. Dr. Ahmet B. Ercilasun [s.129-138] Ottoman Turkish In Pre-Ottoman Anatolia / Prof. Dr. Mustafa Özkan [s.139-151] The 19th Century Ottoman Turkish Language / Prof. Dr. İsmail Parlatır [s.152-166] Esperanto In The Ottoman Empire The First Artifical Language "Balaybelen" / Dr. Mustafa Koç [s.167-172] Ottoman Literature The Poetry of 700 Years / Prof. Dr. İskender Pala [s.175-184] A View On Turkish Literature of The Ottoman Period In Terms of Commons of Folk and Divan Literatures / Prof. Dr. Cemal Kurnaz [s.185-198] The Century of Style and Deep Meaning In Literature: The 17th Century / Prof. Dr. Namık Açıkgöz [s.199-209] Some Significant Aspects of The Lale Devri (Tulip Era): 1718-1730 / Asst. Prof. Dr. Cemal Bayak [s.210-222] Literature As The Reflecting Area of New Ideas (1859-1923) / Prof. Dr. İnci Enginün [s.223-236] The Tradition of Letter Writing In The Ottoman State / Asst. Prof. Dr. I. Çetin. Derdiyok [s.237-248] Female Poets In Ottomans / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazan Bekiroğlu [s.249-260] The Concept of Aesthetics Among The Ottomans A Review of The Ottoman World of Aesthetic / Beşir Ayvazoğlu [s.263-275] An Essay On The Aesthetics In Ottoman City / Prof. Dr. Sadettin Ökten [s.276-286] Ottoman Aesthetics / Prof. Dr. Jale N. Erzen [s.287-298] Ottoman Architecture A General View of Ottoman Turkish Arthitecture Turkish Architecture In Ottoman Era / Prof. Dr. Semavi Eyice [s.303-322] A General View To The Development of Ottoman Architecture / Prof. Dr. M. Oluş Arık [s.323-337] Ottoman Medreses / Prof. Dr. Zeynep Ahunbay [s.338-345] The Architectural Style of Castles During The Ottoman Period / Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Boran [s.346-363] The Darüssifas In The Ottoman Period / Prof. Dr. Gönül Çantay [s.364-373] Anatolia Clock Towers / Prof. Dr. Hakkı Acun [s.374-379] Menzil Roads and Menzil Complexes In The Ottoman Empire / Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatih Müderrisoğlu [s.380-388] Turkish House, Ottoman House / Prof. Dr. Haşim Karpuz [s.389-396] Kitchen As A Residential Area In Anatolian Turkish Architecture and Examples of Ottoman Era / Asst. Prof. Dr. Emine Karpuz [s.397-403] The Sebils in the Ottoman Architecture / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nur Urfaloğlu [s.404-409] The Sebils In The Ottoman Architecture / Prof. Dr. Ömür Bakırer [s.410-420] The Golden Age of Ottoman Architecture and Mimar Sinan Ottoman Architecture In The Classical Period / Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam [s.423-449] Sinan / Prof. Dr. Doğan Kuban [s.450-463] The Place of ‘Hassa Architects Guild’: Its In The Development of Ottoman Architecture / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeki Sönmez [s.464-470] City Architects In Ottoman Architecture / Dr. Abdülkadir Dündar [s.471-479] The Modular System In Mimar Sinan’s Works of Arts and Ebced Accounting / Prof. Dr. İsmail Yakıt [s.480-485] Acoustic Solutions In Classic Ottoman Architecture / Prof. Dr. Mutbul Kayılı [s.486-493] The Relationship of Architectural Design and Mathematics In The Works of Mimar Sinan / Zafer Sagdıç [s.494-497] The Ottoman Architecture In The Balkans / Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ibrahimgil [s.498-510] The Influence of Ottoman Architecture On Mosques of Aleppo / Dr. Najwa Othman [s.511-525] Ottoman Architecture In North Africa / Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Pektaş [s.526-532] Turkish Musical Theory and Musicians The Turkish Music and Instruments In The ottoman State / Ethem Ruhi Üngör [s.535-547] Musicians In The Ottoman Empire and Central Asia In The 15th Century According To An Unknown Work of Aydinli Semseddin Nahifi / Dr. Recep Uslu [s.548-555] A Glance At Sufi Music In The History of Ottoman Music / Ömer Tuğrul İnancer [s.556-561] The Concept of Ottoman Fasil / Dr. Eugenia Popescu-Judetz [s.562-570] Classical Western Music In The Ottoman Empire / Vedat Kosal [s.571-586] Poet and Composer Ottoman Sultans / Osman Nuri Özpekel [s.587-608] Music In The Tanzimat Era Sultans and Their Music Understandings / Gülay Karamahmutoğlu [s.609-620] Janissary Music / Sbylee Tura [s.621-626] Ney and Ney-Players In The 18th Century / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Erguner [s.627-642] The Prince Musician Kantemiroglu / Dr. Eugenia Popescu-Judetz [s.643-650] The Tradition of Turkish Music Therapy / Asst. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç [s.651-656] Traditional Ottoman Arts The Ottoman Calligraphy / Prof. Dr. h.c. M. Uğur Derman [s.659-668] The Art of Illumination In The Ottomans / Prof. Dr. Zeren Tanındı [s.669-675] The Arts of Tezhip (Gilding) In The Ottoman Centuries With Its Styles And Artists / Assoc. Prof. Dr. F. Çiçek Derman [s.676-690] The Ottoman Miniature Painting / Prof. Dr. Oktay Aslanapa [s.691-700] Ebru Art of Marbling / Hikmet Barutçugil [s.701-706] Tiles In The Early Ottoman Empire / Prof. Dr. Gönül Öney [s.707-714] Iznik In The Ottoman Tile Manufacturing / Prof. Dr. Ara Altun [s.715-722] The Art of Metalwork In The Ottomans / Prof. Dr. Tercan Yılmaz [s.723-729] The Ottoman Jewellery / Asst. Prof. Dr. Aygün Ülgen [s.730-748] Painted Ottoman Decoration / Prof. Dr. Yıldız Demiriz [s.749-755] An Ottoman Art Kept Alive In Morocco: Nahil-Work (WaxWork Tree Decoration) / Prof. Dr. Metin Akar [s.756-763] The Carpets In The ottoman Period / Prof. Dr. Bekir Deniz [s.764-780] Ottoman Plastic Arts Portraiture of The Ottoman Sultans / Prof. Dr. Günsel Renda [s.783-791] The Ottomans In 18th and 19th Century European Art Turquerie and Orientalism / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Seyfi Başkan [s.792-805] An Outline of The Development of Sculpture In The Ottoman Empire / Dr. Kıymet Giray [s.806-811] Photography In Ottoman Empire / Engin Özendes [s.812-826] Ottoman Drama Major Festivities Organized During The Reign of Mahmud II / Prof. Dr. Özdemir Nutku [s.829-840] The Traditional Turkish Theatre / Asst. Prof. Dr. Dilaver Düzgün [s.841-853] From Darülbedayi To The City Theatres of Istanbul / Prof. Dr. Özdemir Nutku [s.854-864] Libraries and Books In The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Libraries and The Ottoman Librarian Tradition / Prof. Dr. İsmail E. Erünsal [s.867-885] Second Hand Book Sellers And Travellers Bookselling In The Ottoman State / Yahya Erdem [s.886-896] The Book In Ottoman Family / Asst. Dr. Fahri Sakal [s.897-903] Index of Authors / [s.904-906]

Book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation III

Download or read book The Great Ottoman Turkish Civilisation III written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdülaziz Bayındır [s.639-656] The "Kanunname of Mehmed II:" A Different Perspective / Baki Tezcan [s.657-665] The Sectarian Preference In The Ottoman Jurisprudence / Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Karaman [s.666-675] The Judicial Privileges of Foreigners In The Ottoman Empire / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Saner Gönen [s.676-688] Ottoman Law and Its Transformation Reception and Constitutional System / Dr. Christian Rumph [s.691-704] The Codification of The Islamic-Ottoman Family Law and The Decree of "Hukuk-i Aile" / Prof. Dr. M. Akif Aydın [s.705-713] Ottoman Military Ottoman Military Organization, Arms, War Industry and Technology Ottoman Military Organization / Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Özcan [s.719-726] Fire Arms In The Ottoman State / Prof. Dr. Mücteba Ilgürel [s.727-734] Ottoman Maritime Arsenals and Ship-Building Technology In The 16th and 17th Centuries / Prof. Dr. İdris Bostan [s.735-744] Mehmed The Conqueror and Fire-Arms Technology / Dr. Salim Aydüz [s.745-749] The Janissary Corps In The Late 16th and - Early 17th Century: The First Attempt At Military Reform In The Ottoman Empire / Dr. Irina Petrosyan [s.750-760] Ottoman Wakf System Turkish Wakfs or Turkish System of Charities In The Ottoman Era / Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Yediyıldız [s.763-789] The Wakf In The Ottoman Period: A Social Policy Perspective / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazif Öztürk [s.790-800] Wakf Institutions In Bosnian Sancak Until The Beginning of The 17th Century / Hatidza Car-Drnda [s.801-812]

Book Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture

Download or read book Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture written by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first contributions to their respective topics, and they continue to provoke discussion and debate amongst academics to this day. The first volume of the author’s collected papers that appeared in the Variorum Collected Studies (2004) dispelled the negative opinions towards Ottoman science asserted by scholars of the previous generation. In this new volume, the author continues to explore and develop the paradigm of scientific activities and cultural interactions both within and beyond the Ottoman Empire. One of the topics examined is the attitude of Islamic scholars towards revolutionary notions in Western science, including Copernican heliocentrism and Darwin’s theory of evolution. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Ottoman history, as well as those interested in the history of science and cultural history. (CS1098).

Book Index Islamicus

Download or read book Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries

Download or read book Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries written by Department of Information & Collections and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.

Book Science among the Ottomans

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  • Author : Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-10-15
  • ISBN : 1477303618
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Science among the Ottomans written by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished. In the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era’s most advanced nations with regard to modern communication infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.

Book Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Download or read book Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire written by Malissa Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform. Demonstrating the profound and ongoing adaptation of a legal tradition that was at once both Ottoman and Islamic, it revises our understanding of the relationship between the modern Islamic world and its early modern past, and what kind of intervention was represented by reform in the 19th century.

Book The State and Kurds in Turkey

Download or read book The State and Kurds in Turkey written by M. Heper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely, Metin Heper suggests a theory of acculturation (rather than assimilation) captures the nature of State-Kurd interaction in Turkey, by not leaving any part of that interaction unaccounted for.

Book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World  2 vols

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 vols written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Book Empire and Power in the Reign of S  leyman

Download or read book Empire and Power in the Reign of S leyman written by Kaya Şahin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaya Şahin's book offers a revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66). By examining the life and works of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa, Şahin argues that the empire was built as part of the Eurasian momentum of empire building and demonstrates the imperial vision of sixteenth-century Ottomans. This unique study shows that, in contrast with many Eurocentric views, the Ottomans were active players in European politics, with an imperial culture in direct competition with that of the Habsburgs and the Safavids. Indeed, this book explains Ottoman empire building with reference to the larger Eurasian context, from Tudor England to Mughal India, contextualizing such issues as state formation, imperial policy and empire building in the period more generally. Şahin's work also devotes significant attention to the often-ignored religious dimension of the Ottoman-Safavid struggle, showing how the rivalry redefined Sunni and Shiite Islam, laying the foundations for today's religious tensions.

Book Disciples of the State

Download or read book Disciples of the State written by Kristin Fabbe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such difference have contributed to failures of liberal democratic consolidation.