First of the Modern Ottomans - The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif

Informationen zum Autor Ethan L. Menchinger is currently a lecturer at the University of Michigan. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Freie Universität, Berlin, and a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto. Klappentext This book explores intellectual life, politics and reform in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire by studying statesman and historian Ahmed Vâsif. Zusammenfassung This book explores Ottoman intellectual life, politics and reform during the eighteenth century through the study of the key statesmen and historian Ahmed Vâsif. It is for students and researchers of intellectual history, the Enlightenment period, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Dramatis personae; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Out of the east: early life (c.1735-68); 2. At war (1768-74); 3. Years of faction and reform (1774-87); 4. 'Honorable exile': in Spain (1787-8); 5. At war (1788-92); 6. Vâs¿f and the new order (1792-1800); 7. The height of fame (1800-6); 8. Epilogue: Vâs¿f as ancient and modern; Appendix: on the authorship of the Final Word to Refute the Rabble; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ethan L. Menchinger, Ethan L. (University of Toronto) Menchinger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107197978
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19797-8
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Middle Eastern history