A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century

A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century ...

Handbook of Oriental Studies Handbuch der Orientalistik section one The Near and Middle East Edited by Maribel Fierro (Madrid) M ...

A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century By Marinos Sariyannis with a chapter by E. Ekin Tuşalp ...

Cover illustration: Illuminated manuscript, Five poems (quintet), Alexander the Great and the seven philosophers, Walters Art Mu ...

Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration and Citations xi Introduction 1 1 What Is Ottoman Political Thought? 5 2 Sco ...

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3 Reactions to the Imperial Vision 3.1 The Ulema Opposition to the Süleymanic Synthesis Scholars 4 The Iranian Tradition Contin ...

Acknowledgments In Ottoman moral philosophy, generosity (sehâvet) is one of the main virtues related to politics, and in our fie ...

x Acknowledgments Research and Technology, funded by Greece and the European Social Fund of the European Union under the Operati ...

Note on Transliteration and Citations The transliteration of Ottoman names and texts is always a thorny problem. For a book rely ...

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© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019 | doi:10.1163/9789004385245_ Introduction One sees great things from the valley; only small ...

2 Introduction the basis of his appendix on “some Turkish views on politics”, which was the first comprehensive discussion of th ...

Introduction 3 while new approaches and methods of analysis are being applied while, at the same time, scholars have been trying ...

4 Introduction University Press), while a fascinating description of Ottoman political ideology in the Süleymanic era, it does n ...

Introduction 5 played no small role in promoting this perspective. On a larger scale, one can also note the influence of the mor ...

6 Introduction of politics, if they use one at all.21 The definition of politics is even now an object of discussion, but one ca ...

Introduction 7 theories of government.26 In a more genre-centered vocabulary, the latter two categories would correspond, respec ...

8 Introduction write “mirrors for princes” (although such texts were usually aimed at viziers), and so forth. Moreover, it must ...