The Ottoman WorldChristine Woodhead Routledge, 15 déc. 2011 - 560 pages 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. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Istanbul? Ottoman authority might have been established largely by military conquest, but how was it maintained for so long, over such distances and so many disparate societies? How did provincial regions relate to the imperial centre and what role was played in this by local elites? What did it mean in practice, for ordinary people, to be part of an ‘Ottoman world’? Arranged in five thematic sections, with contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses these questions, examining 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. The Ottoman World provides a unique coverage of the Ottoman empire, widening its scope beyond Istanbul to the edges of the empire, and offers key coverage for students and scholars alike. |
Table des matières
Colin Imber | |
eighteenth centuries | |
Amy Singer | |
Derin Terzioğlu | |
Conquest urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire | |
The peripheralization of the Ottoman algerian elite | |
nonMuslim Ottoman merchants | |
household formation among the urban | |
seventeenth and eighteenthcentury | |
Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo | |
the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman | |
Ottoman Greece | |
Royal and other households | |
The construction of a topos | |
Of translation and empire sixteenthcentury Ottoman imperial | |
Ottoman languages | |
Ottoman markers of difference | |
The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism | |
the celalis c 15501700 | |
Ottoman frontiers in the early | |
the case of Ottoman Hungary | |
The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth | |
Ottoman womenas legal and marital subjects | |
Istanbul and beyond 16001800 | |
The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East | |
The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c 1600 1850 | |
a sociopolitical | |
Glossary | |
References | |