The Ottoman world / / edited by Christine Woodhead

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.015; 956/.015
• Soggetto topico: History - 1288-1918
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918; Turkey Civilization 1288-1918
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WoodheadChristine <1952->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Ottoman World; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Note on Turkish and technicalities; Introduction: Christine Woodhead; Part I: Foundations; 1. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire: Resat Kasaba; 2. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age: Rhoads Murphey; 3. The law of the land: Colin Imber; 4. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Rossitsa Gradeva; 5. Imarets: Amy Singer ; 6. Sufis in the age of state-building and Confessionalization: Derin TerziogluPart II: Ottomans and Others; 7. Royal and other households: Metin Kunt; 8. 'On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan': the construction of a topos: Hakan T. Karateke; 9. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as Renaissance go-betweens: Tijana Krstic; 10. Ottoman languages: Christine Woodhead; 11. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference: Baki Tezcan; 12. The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism: Stefan Winter ; 13. The reign of violence: the celalis c.1550-1700: Oktay ÖzelPart III: The Wider Empire; 14. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period: Dariusz Kotodziejczyk; 15. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary: Gábor Ágoston; 16. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Nelida Fuccaro; 17. Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire, 1453-1600: Nükhet Varlik; 18. The peripheralization of the Ottoman Algerian elite: Tal Shuval ; 19. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam: Ismail Hakki KadiPart IV: Ordinary People; 20. Masters, servants and slaves: household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo: Charles L. Wilkins; 21. Subject to the sultan's approval: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul: Suraiya Faroqhi; 22. Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo: Nelly Hanna; 23. 'Guided by the Almighty': the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman empire, 1752-6: Jan Schmidt ; 24. The right to choice: Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in Ottoman Greece: Eugenia Kermeli25. Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects: Basak Tug; 26. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800: Tülay Artan; Part V: Later Ottomans; 27. The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East: Ariel Salzmann; 28. The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c.1600-1850: Michael Ursinus; 29. Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world: conflict or partnership?: Ali Yaycioglu ; 30. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis: Ehud R. Toledano
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 distanc
• Titolo autorizzato: The Ottoman world
• ISBN: 1-283-43482-2; 9786613434821; 0-203-14285-3; 1-136-49895-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457802203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge worlds.