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64 | Mahmud Pasha and His Christian Circle was in a position to create networks of patronage within the army, as well as among p ...

Stavrides|65 Lowry, Heath W. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. This work ...

Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri Murat Cem Mengüç Sometime between 1487 and 1492, an Ottoman author named ...

Mengüç|67 least marginalized, especially within official Ottoman historiography. Along with other authors, Neşri was pivotal in ...

68 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri many Turkic emirates, among them Karaman, and shuffled the governors ...

Mengüç|69 history from his collection remains problematic. In any event, whether the Ot- tomans were focused on building their s ...

70 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri Aqqoyunlu confederation expanded to the northeast of the Karamanids, ...

Mengüç|71 the founding fathers by asserting that the Ottomans did not receive the leader- ship of Islamic religious imperialism ...

72 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri have known that such views could be disadvantageous to him, along wi ...

Mengüç|73 a chronologically arranged collection of historical stories of factual and fictional material, including genealogies, ...

74 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri Neşri broke the word türkmen into two, türk and iman (faith), and st ...

Mengüç|75 stately Sultan, Türkmen have earrings on their ears. I am collecting those.” Hünkâr smiled and said, “Let that be know ...

76 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri the sultan decided to observe “the old tradition” and no longer purs ...

Mengüç|77 Could he not know this is disrespectful? Could he not know that, according to Is- lamic law, stealing from fellow Musl ...

78 | Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri Notes . All translations in this chapter are mine. I transliterated ...

 A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman Hasan Karataş Habib-i Karamani (d. 1496) lived in fif ...

80 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn the social history of mysticism, which explores the social and political relations o ...

Karataş|81 his early twenties. But to become a dervish he had to not only travel across physi- cal distances but also overcome h ...

82 | A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn The travels of Karamani upon his return to Anatolia show that he first tried to find ...

Karataş|83 central Anatolia, with the cities of Amasya and Konya as their respective centers. The Turkish polities in the fronti ...