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

The Eighteenth Century: the Westernizers 429 alist” reasoning. The works produced to justify Mahmud II’s first moves, like Es’ad ...

430 chapter 9 measures taken by Mahmud II following the 1821 Greek revolt, when (as nar- rated above) he reverted to a peculiar ...

The Eighteenth Century: the Westernizers 431 to describe his reform program in strictly non-Westernizing terms, leaving the full ...

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019 | doi:10.1163/9789004385245_012 conclusion Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History As stated ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 433 people the means of living in society (majma ’) and in peace, namely siyasa. This scie ...

434 conclusion himself. Mustafa Ali, for instance, seems to connect equity with government while keeping mildness and punishment ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 435 the sultan of the seven regions of the earth”). With Kâtib Çelebi, one may see a widen ...

436 conclusion 2 State One cannot examine these notions without mentioning the emergence of the modern concept of the state, i.e ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 437 seems to be more willing to accept the by-then long-established institution and notes ...

438 conclusion advocated peace clearly considered war and conflict as a natural characteristic of humanity (rather than speaking ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 439 justice” (adaletname), i.e. circulars against the illegal practices of local officials ...

440 conclusion but corporate entities, namely the four social groups (men of the sword, men of the pen, traders, and peasants). ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 441 must have been evident that the place of justice within the system of Ottoman politica ...

442 conclusion first instances of this reasoning is in Aşıkpaşazade’s history, when a reluctant Osman I is finally persuaded to ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 443 lines. While Penah Efendi proposed the abolition of such paragons of the “old law” as ...

444 conclusion order” (nizam-i cedid) as well:39 it seems thus that the cult of the “old law” had strong kanun connotations. Thr ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 445 the janissaries (commonly known as heavy smokers) and their political power is temptin ...

446 conclusion in order to argue for the necessity of the printing press. A strange mixed atti- tude towards the concept of inno ...

Towards an Ottoman Conceptual History 447 One of the most important consequences of this notion was that small conces- sions cou ...

448 conclusion an indispensable element of order.52 A parallel with the Byzantine notion of taxiarchia (ταξιαρχία), which combin ...