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Title

Legitimizing the order : the Ottoman rhetoric of state power / edited by Hakan T. Karateke, Maurus Reinkowski.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Karateke, Hakan T.
• Reinkowski, Maurus

Description

viii, 259 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The three sections of this book, The Well-Founded Order, Religiosity and Orthodoxy and The Crisis of Ottoman Legitimacy revolve around the issue how the sultan and the Ottoman ruling class sought to inculcate their understanding of authority into the Ottoman population. Besides notions such as good government, justice and divine right, the practical achievement of order and tranquillity was the hallmark of a successful Ottoman ruler. The last section of the book turns to the question how Ottoman notions of legitimacy - especially in the 18th and 19th centuries - were exposed to criticism or how they were disrupted in crisis situations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 34

Uniform Title

Ottoman Empire and its heritage v. 34.

Subject

• Legitimacy of governments > Turkey
• State, The
• Turkey > Politics and government

Note

• Revised papers delivered at a conference held at Bogazici University, in July 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Hakan Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski -- Legitimizing the Ottoman sultanate : a framework for historical analysis / Hakan Karateke -- Legitimacy and world order / Gottfried Hagen -- Murad III and the historians : representations of Ottoman imperial authority in late 16th-century historiography / Christine Woodhead -- Frozen legitimacy / Colin Imber -- Opium for the subjects? : religiosity as a legitimizing factor for the Ottoman sultan / Hakan Karateke -- Kalam in the service of state : apostasy and the defining of Ottoman Islamic identity / Nabil Al-Tikriti -- Inventing orthodoxy : competing claims for authority and legitimacy in the Ottoman-Safavid conflict / Markus Dressler.

ISBN

9004144226 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005047219

OCLC

• 60375478
• SCSB-10104465

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library