By Daniel Goffman
ISBN-10: 051103945X
ISBN-13: 9780511039454
ISBN-10: 0521452805
ISBN-13: 9780521452809
Although its capital urban and over one 3rd of its territory used to be in the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has always been considered as a spot aside, inextricably divided from the West via transformations of tradition and faith. A notion of its militarism, its barbarism, its tyranny, the sexual appetites of its rulers and its pervasive exoticism has led historians to degree the Ottoman global opposed to a western normal and locate it missing. In fresh a long time, a dynamic and convincing scholarship has emerged that seeks to understand and, within the strategy, to de-exoticize this enduring realm. Dan Goffman presents a radical creation to the historical past and associations of the Ottoman Empire from this new viewpoint, and provides a declare for its inclusion in Europe. His lucid and fascinating book--an very important addition to New methods in eu History--will be crucial analyzing for undergraduates.
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Halil Inalcık, “Suleiman the lawgiver and Ottoman law,” Archivum Ottomanicum 1(1969): 105–38, and chapter 3 below. ˙ On the controversy over the roots of Ottoman law, see Halil Inalcık, “The Ottoman succession and its relation to the Turkish concept of sovereignty,” in The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire: essays on economy and society (Bloomington, IN, 1993), pp. 37–69. The question of Ottoman origins and legacy has been thoroughly politicized. On origins, see Herbert A. Gibbons, The foundation of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford, 1916); Fuat M.
Nevertheless, the proclivity of historians to envisage the Empire as ignoble and antithetical to “refined” Western standards undoubtedly has obscured the nuances of Ottoman civilization as well as the many common elements between it and the rest of Europe. Europe viewed from afar We are not compelled to view the world from such a western-European perspective. The physical world has neither apex nor nadir, and it makes just as much geographic sense, to take an equally arbitrary case, to study the Far West (western Europe) from the viewpoint of the Near West (the Ottoman Empire) as it does to foreground the successor states of Christendom.
A series of semi-independent principalities lay nestled between these two behemoths. Their titular head was the Seljuks of Rum (weakened by defeat at the hands of the Mongols), whose capital was in Konya. Nevertheless, a series of relatively small emirates – among them the Mente¸seo˘glu, the Aydıno˘glu, the Saruhano˘glu, the Karasio˘glu, and of course the Osmano˘glu (the “Ottoman son”) – had by the early fourteenth century emerged to challenge both Seljuk sovereignty over them and Byzantine control over western Anatolia.
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