Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam - Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Markiewicz is Lecturer in Ottoman and Islamic History at the University of Birmingham. He was the Bennett Boskey Fellow in Extra-European History at Exeter College, Oxford between 2015 and 2017. In recognition of his research, he was awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award by the Middle East Studies Association in 2016. Klappentext Examines how ideological and administrative crises within Islamic lands in the late fifteenth century brought about a new conception of kingship for the early modern period. Through Idris Bidlisi, a major intellectual and statesman, this book paints a picture of a changing Ottoman Empire: shifting from regional dynastic kingdom to global empire. Zusammenfassung Examines how ideological and administrative crises within Islamic lands in the late fifteenth century brought about a new conception of kingship for the early modern period. Through Idris Bidlisi, a major intellectual and statesman, this book paints a picture of a changing Ottoman Empire: shifting from regional dynastic kingdom to global empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. The realm of generation and decay: Bidlisi in Iran, 1457-1502; 2. Patronage and place among the Ottomans: Bidlisi and the Court of Bayezid II, 1502-1511; 3. The return East (1511-1520); Part II: 4. The Timurid vocabulary of sovereignty; 5. The canons of conventional histories; 6. Ottoman sovereignty on the cusp of Universal Empire; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Markiewicz Christopher Markiewicz, MARKIEWI CHRISTOPHE, Christopher Markiewicz, Christopher (University of Birmingham) Markiewicz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108710572
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71057-2
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Middle Eastern history, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards