A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 189 done previously. Rumor had it that he intended to collect an army in the east- ern te ...
190 chapter 5 three decades of continuous warfare. Murad died in 1640, leaving behind a ter- rorizing reputation as a suppressor ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 191 historiographical works such as Arif ’s 1558 Süleymanname), but reached its zenith in ...
192 chapter 5 rather than in their rulers’ hopelessness. Obviously, Veysi was responding to an expanding sense of decline for wh ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 193 his advice is said to have been followed closely by Murad, to whom it was ad- dressed ...
194 chapter 5 notably Murad III, whose series of dreams and visions reveal that he believed in his own special, almost prophetic ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 195 Osman’s execution), it was almost impossible to read such passages as those composed ...
196 chapter 5 “ulema and wise people” as well as “history books” (on the “circle of equity”) and Yazıcıoğlu’s Muhammediye, while ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 197 Kitâb-ı müstetâb can be seen as the link between Ottoman adab literature, initiated b ...
198 chapter 5 was completed around 1630–31, probably in two versions.21 As for his second treatise, which shall be examined belo ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 199 These anonymous and short memoranda apart, another important prod- uct of the same pe ...
200 chapter 5 mukarrebân) up to the beginnings of Murad III’s sultanate. As long as Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was grand vizier (prais ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 201 and Akhisari did speak of their oppressive practices (the former, particularly, more ...
202 chapter 5 sipahis’ sons (ferzend-i sipahi), as well as concealing the death of a soldier and selling his pay-ticket to “a sh ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 203 for the past sixty years”: M3). Kitâb-ı müstetâb notes that fiefs are now granted by ...
204 chapter 5 were allotted to sipahis as timars (this distrust of vakf endowment, which brings to mind similar remarks by Musta ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 205 posts were granted on the basis of bribes rather than merit, and while timars started ...
206 chapter 5 suggestion of restraining the power of the army; Kınalızade’s similar theorizing was not used by Koçi Bey or the a ...
The “Golden Age” as a Political Agenda 207 old law, the anonymous author continues, demands that the sultan appoint a grand vizi ...
208 chapter 5 manned with Albanians, Bosnians, and others of slave origin (kul cinsi), as the ancient law ordains (in Aziz Efend ...
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