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Zusatztext "Woodheadhas assembled an excellent group of Ottomanists whose diversity of interests! training! and age adds to the value of this volume... Each essay is a gem unto itself! based on the individual author's specialized area of research. As a whole! the volume provides a detailed understanding of the richness and complexity of the empire as well as raising points for future debates! going well beyond what any narrative account is able to do. This book is indispensible for anyone interested in new trends in Ottoman research. Summing up: Essential." -Choice"A perfect combination of history and historiography! senior and junior scholars! archives and secondary materials! established trends in the field and sophisticated new methods! this book will be illuminating for both those long familiar with the Ottomans and those encountering the empire for the first time.If one is going to read just one book on the Ottoman Empire! this should be it.A truly impressive achievement." - Alan Mikhail! Yale University! USA."A highly useful instructional text that should be engaged by not only those teaching "Middle Eastern history" but those offering courses in European early modern history as well. There are a number of valuable intersections provided by a new generation of scholars who consciously engage "Europe" as part of the Ottoman story. For this reason! the book is probably the best collection of its kind on the early modern period in the market today and should provide a foundation for the next generation of scholars interested in expanding the study of the Ottoman Empire in order to fully engage European and Global history." - Isa Blumi! Leipzig University! Germany and Georgia State University! USA Informationen zum Autor Christine Woodhead is Teaching Fellow in History at the University of Durham. Klappentext Arranged in five thematic sections! with contributions from 30 specialist historians! 'The Ottoman World' examines aspects of the social and socio-ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire. It offers a combination of broad synthesis and investigation that is informative and intended to raise points for future debate. Zusammenfassung With contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses the key questions of how Ottoman authority was maintained over such a diverse empire, how the provinces related to the imperial centre, what impact Ottoman rule had on its subjects, and whether there was in fact such a thing as an "Ottoman world". Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Ilustrations List of Maps Preface Note on Turkish and technicalities 1. Introduction Christine Woodhead PART I: FOUNDATIONS 2. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire Resat Kasaba 3. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age Rhoads Murphey 4. The law of the land Colin Imber 5. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Rossitsa Gradeva 6. Imarets Amy Singer 7. Sufis in the age of state-building and confessionalization Derin Terzioglu PART II: OTTOMANS AND OTHERS 8. Royal and other households Metin Kunt 9. 'On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan': the construction of a topos Hakan Karateke 10. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as renaissance go-betweens Tijana Krstic 11. Ottoman languages Christine Woodhead 12. Ethnicity! race! religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference Baki Tezcan 13. The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism Stefan Winter 14. The reign of violence: the celalis c. 1550-1700 Oktay Özel PART III: THE WIDER EMPIRE 15. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period Dariusz Kolodziejczyk 16. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary Gábor Ágoston 17. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Nelida Fuccaro 18. Conquest! urbanization and...
