A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century
Introduction 9 culminated in the first half of the nineteenth century, when a huge program of reforms was implemented, the well- ...
10 Introduction a third way for the history of political thought, between the ahistorical study of a sequence of texts (the “tex ...
Introduction 11 Thus, the approach to Ottoman political thought that this book proposes differs from earlier (Ottomanist) approa ...
12 Introduction and accommodate as many authors and types of works as possible, I certainly do not claim that the present book f ...
Introduction 13 Ottomanists), and which have been studied only in short, article-length sur- veys and unpublished theses. As Col ...
14 Introduction Slavic ...), and Jews. Unfortunately, however, limitations of time and language made this task impossible within ...
Introduction 15 of its political ideas.51 As such, I follow Rifaat Abou-El-Haj’s suggestion that the late seventeenth century ma ...
16 Introduction Before proceeding to a fuller examination of the concepts of “modernity” and “early modernity”, a note on period ...
Introduction 17 in order to describe those centuries that were previously labeled as “decline”. It was Rifaat Abou-El-Haj who fi ...
18 Introduction states ... leading in most cases to a hardening of international boundar- ies, greater governmental efforts to m ...
Introduction 19 axiomatic now, as has been mentioned, that similar forms of political orga- nization and of intellectual develop ...
20 Introduction he departs from simple political definitions (although politics is his main field of analysis) and speaks of “a ...
Introduction 21 and in its reproduction.73 If we want to place this periodization in terms of the “transition to modernity” para ...
22 Introduction 4 Trends and Currents: for a Thematic Description of Ottoman Political Thought As mentioned, this book was conce ...
Introduction 23 be generous to the soldiers, as well as the suspicious attitude towards every attempt to reinforce centralized p ...
24 Introduction attitudes against which subsequent authors reacted. First, the basis of the Ottoman legal synthesis will be stud ...
Introduction 25 Hırzü’l-mülûk) before focusing on the enormous work by Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali (d. 1600), who expressed deep disa ...
26 Introduction The debates of the seventeenth century cannot be simply described as the products of the antagonism between the ...
Introduction 27 every kind (or stage) of society needs different measures and thus that any potential reformer should adopt a pr ...
28 Introduction re-introduced Aristotelian ideas by speaking of the three possible constitu- tions (monarchy, aristocracy, and d ...
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