Legitimizing the Order - The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power

Karateke Hakan T., Reinkowski Maurus (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 9004144226 / ISBN 13: 9789004144224

Published by Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2005

About this Item

viii - 259 pp. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage - Politics, Society and Economy - Volume 34. Covers in perfect condition. Clean and unmarked inside. Ex. library of the Library of the Ghent University: stamps and numbers. Otherwise a very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Legitimizing the Order - The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden / Boston
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004144226
• ISBN 13: 9789004144224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Turkey
  • Politics
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

A dynasty that ruled for more than six centuries certainly developed many strategies to confront “legitimacy crises” and undertook various endeavors to legitimize their rule.
After the introduction that establishes a theoretical framework for examining the Ottoman state’s legitimacy, the present volume deploys into three sections. “The Well-Founded Order” deals with the question of how the Ottomans imagined the order of their polity and how they tried to live up to this self-representation.
“Religiosity and Orthodoxy” turns to the question of religiosity and orthodoxy as defined by Ottoman political theory and how these concepts related to the issue of legitimacy. The last section discusses how the Ottoman notions of legitimacy were exposed to criticism, discussion or simply to transformations in situations of crisis, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.

About the Author

Hakan Karateke, Dr. phil (1998) in Turkology, Bamberg University, Germany, teaches at Harvard University. His dissertation entitled Long Live the Sultan! Ottoman Ceremonies in the 19th Century was published in 2004 in Turkish.
Maurus Reinkowski, Dr. phil. (1995) in Turkology, Bamberg University, Germany, teaches Islamic History at Freiburg University. Recently his interest has turned to the phenomenon of crypto-religious groups in the Muslim world.