584 Place Names, Subjects, Terms
Craftsmen 82, 237–238, 248, 279, 281, 320,
327, 329, 353–354, 358–359, 374, 450
Crete 223, 225, 228, 231, 247, 265–267, 274,
279–280, 284, 304, 363, 383, 453n
Crimea 215, 223, 227–228, 281, 329–330, 346,
348, 362, 367, 384, 405n, 417
Cruelty 54, 94, 123, 224, 318–319, 322, 401
Cyclical view of history 25–26, 161, 165, 191,
285
Cyprus 144, 228, 267, 351
Çanakkale 375
Çapanoğlu family 328, 346
Damascus 73, 160, 172, 229, 328
Danube 30, 281, 329–330, 357, 359, 370,
373n, 383
Decentralization 16, 147
Decline of dynasties/states 135, 165,
288–293, 305–306, 309–312, 314, 321,
348, 404, 437, 450
Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Seen by Ottoman authors 24–25, 27,
145–149, 160, 182, 186–187, 190–192,
197–198, 200, 203, 209, 214, 220,
249–253, 257, 279, 285, 290, 294–295,
303, 304, 306, 312, 317, 349–350, 385,
394, 455
Contested by modern scholarship 4, 5,
16, 144–148, 329
“Declinist” authors/theories 22, 24–25, 93,
120, 144–213, 219, 221, 224, 302, 304, 333,
343, 417, 440, 442, 445, 450, 453, 456,
459n
Delhi 458
Democratic government 297, 377, 379n,
380n, 387, 389, 427
Dervishes 37, 38, 55, 59, 60, 64, 126, 159, 186,
225, 234, 242–243, 263, 370–371, 414,
416, 444, 452
See also Sufism
Devlet
As personal charisma 60, 436
As dynasty 88, 313, 436
As state 92, 226, 227n, 256, 290, 311, 348,
353, 366, 386, 392, 436
As society 289–290, 295, 306, 309–310,
317–318, 435–436
Devşirme recruitment 53, 62, 64, 137, 141,
147, 154–156, 166, 169, 170n, 172, 193,
195, 197, 201, 206, 216, 217n, 230, 408,
413
Dress codes 140, 155, 167, 206, 383, 428, 430,
449–450
see also uniforms
Druzes 188
Dwarfs 145, 175, 186, 203, 243Ecnebi see “strangers”
Economic thought 3, 23, 27, 80–84, 108, 125,
128, 171, 248, 262–263, 273–274, 304,
309, 319–321, 345, 347, 356–358, 360,
366, 372–373, 375, 407n, 409, 423
Edirne 73, 118, 201, 223, 260n, 281, 335, 356,
373n, 382
As ideal capital 39, 70
“Edirne incident”, “Edirne event” 275–276,
281–282, 308–309, 316–317, 322, 326,
335, 340, 342
Education 66–67, 129, 131, 162, 193, 240, 286,
300, 306, 308, 309, 328, 330, 337,
358–360, 370–372, 374, 381, 383–384,
425, 428, 431, 459
Egypt 99, 101, 104, 118, 125, 135, 139, 143, 160,
169, 218, 230, 322, 327, 330, 351, 357, 383,
391, 422n, 429
Ottoman conquest 16, 65, 100, 111
French invasion 365, 382, 417, 420, 426
Elements of nature 89, 92, 135, 291,
294–295, 348, 396, 449
Embassies and envoys abroad, Ottoman
327, 337, 345, 347, 362, 365, 401,
407–408, 415, 425–427
Emr-i maruf ve nehy-i münker 42–43, 52, 56,
107, 113, 126, 128, 175–176, 233, 248–253,
263, 299, 369, 421, 423–424, 455
England 19, 147, 178, 297, 345, 387, 391n, 400,
407, 459
Enlightenment 16, 114, 326–327
“Islamic Enlightenment” 19, 120n, 245,
456n
Equality 53, 79, 93–94, 135, 167, 340, 377,
426–427
Erevan 145, 189
Erzurum 215n, 238, 275, 346