The empire in the making: construction and early critiques -- "Political philosophy" and the moralist tradition -- The imperial heyday: the formation of the Ottoman system and reactions to it -- "Mirrors for princes": the decline theorists -- The "golden age" as a political agenda: the reform literature -- The "sunna-minded" trend -- Khaldunist philosophy: innovation justified -- The eighteenth century: the traditionalists -- The eighteenth century: the westernizers.
Summary:
In "A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century," Marinos Sariyannis offers a survey of Ottoman political texts, examined in a book-length study for the first time. From the last glimpses of Ghaza ideology and the first instances of Persian political philosophy in the fifteenth century till the apologists of Western-style military reform in the early nineteenth century, the author studies a multitude of theories and views, focusing on an identification of ideological trends rather than a simple enumeration of texts and authors. At the same time, it offers analytical summaries of texts otherwise difficult to find in English.
Series:
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, The Near and Middle East ; Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, The Near and Middle East ; volume 125
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