The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) - Couverture souple

Lowry, Heath W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791456366 ISBN 13 : 9780791456361

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire.

Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Heath W. Lowry is Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University and the author of Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791456366
• ISBN 13: 9780791456361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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