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This work examines the manner in which the Ottomans established control, in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, over a largely Orthodox Christian population in the Balkans and Aegean basin. It argues that their success in ruling the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional state thus created was due less to force of numbers than it was to their granting a wide variety of concessions and privileges to their subjects. This policy, known as istimalet, or good will and accommodation, stemmed, according to Lowry, from a combination of factors including a severe shortage of trained manpower to administer their ever-growing polity and an understanding, from a remarkably early period, that the fruits of conquest (booty and slaves) were no substitute for the steady flow of income (tax revenues) which could be obtained from a population whose support they enjoyed.
This book provides the reader a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into how the early Ottomans managed to create a world empire primarily among peoples whose languages, religions and cultures were all equally foreign to them.
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Heath W. Lowry is the Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University. The present study is the first of three books scheduled to appear in his new series devoted to fourteenth-sixteenth century Ottoman history. It will be followed by: The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. Albany (SUNY Press), February 2003 and Studies on Ottoman Bithynia: Tahrir Defters & Travelers as Sources for the History of Bursa and Iznik. Bloomington (Indiana University: Turkish Studies Series), 2003.
His earlier publications include: The Islamization and Turkification of Trabzon (Trebizond), 1461-1583. Istanbul (Bosphorus University Press) 1981 (Second Edition: 1998 – in Turkish). Continuity and Change in Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society (with A. Bryer et. al.). Birmingham, England (University of Birmingham) & Washington, D.C. (Dumbarton Oaks), 1986 and Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteeth and Sixteenth Centuries. Istanbul (Isis Press) 1992.
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- PublisherEren
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 9757622893
- ISBN 13 9789757622895
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages355
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