A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century
The Imperial Heyday 129 to ethical advice (the style known as adab) rather than philosophical theory (known as ahlak); in other ...
130 chapter 3 specific model phrases for letters addressed to governors, viziers, princes, various officials, and ulema, as well ...
The Imperial Heyday 131 served in the Ottoman chancery first as a scribe in the divan (1516–25), then as reisülküttab (1525–34), ...
132 chapter 3 humanity into three groups, namely the intelligent (akil), fools (ahmak), and sinners ( facir). A perfect individu ...
The Imperial Heyday 133 Celalzade lists in detail the duties of a sultan, following the usual lines of “mirrors for princes”, as ...
134 chapter 3 describe the salaried servants of the state (erkân-ı devlet, ayan-ı saltanat), with twenty subsections or levels ( ...
The Imperial Heyday 135 The sultan is thus above the law; unlimited power may eventually lead to oppression (zulm), but not in t ...
136 chapter 3 Elsewhere, a slightly different version of the “circle of justice” (a dynasty needs people to contribute their wea ...
The Imperial Heyday 137 their hands the pen becomes “an instrument of peace as well as of war”. If there was any doubt which soc ...
138 chapter 3 completed after his historical work (i.e. after 1554).107 Âsafnâme (“The book of Asaf ”, alluding to the mythical ...
The Imperial Heyday 139 the appointments of the district governors (sancakbeyis), etc. The same level of detail is apparent in t ...
140 chapter 3 official in various ranks. It is better to give the mukataas, the public revenues, as government offices (emanet i ...
The Imperial Heyday 141 than any pre-existing political tradition). But on the whole, Âsafnâme stands out as an impressively ori ...
142 chapter 3 and thus he managed to inaugurate a whole new style of treatises, one that was distinctively Ottoman.114 6 As a Co ...
The Imperial Heyday 143 the land-holding and tax systems in line with feudal practice. The emphasis of Lütfi Pasha on the rights ...
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“Mirrors for Princes”: The Decline Theorists^145 of Tabriz in 1585 and the subjugation of Georgia two years later, led to furthe ...
146 chapter 4 to Anatolia, where they joined armed bands of rebels. Peasants had already started to leave their plots and take u ...
“Mirrors for Princes”: The Decline Theorists^147 must be cautious in adopting wholesale the image described above, as in large p ...
148 chapter 4 term can be applied) to the previous one.11 Recently, Baki Tezcan has proposed a continuous conflict between what ...
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