A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72955-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 842 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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 gazi ideology and the first instances of Persian political philosophy in the fifteenth century until 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, the book offers analytical summaries of texts otherwise difficult to find in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sariyannis, Marinos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Citations

Introduction

1 What Is Ottoman Political Thought?

2 Scope and Aims: the Quest for Innovation

3 A Note on ModernityEarly or Not

4 Trends and Currents: for a Thematic Description of Ottoman Political Thought

1 The Empire in the Making: Construction and Early Critiques

1 Opposition to Imperial Policies as an Indicator of Gazi Political Ideas

2 The Introduction of Imperial Ideals

3 Shifting Means of Legitimization

2 Political Philosophy and the Moralist Tradition

1 Works of Ethico-political Philosophy: from Amasi to Knalzade

2 Moral Philosophy as Political Theory

3 The Afterlife of a Genre

3 The Imperial Heyday: the Formation of the Ottoman System and Reactions to It

1 The Basis of the Ottoman Synthesis: Ebussuud and the Reception of Ibn Taymiyya

2 A New Legitimacy

3 Reactions to the Imperial Vision

4 The Iranian Tradition Continued: Bureaucrats, Sufis, and Scholars

5 Lütfi Pasha and the Beginning of the Ottoman Mirror for Princes

6 As a Conclusion: the Ideas at Hand, the Forces at Work

4 Mirrors for Princes: the Decline Theorists

1 Ottoman Authors and the Decline Paradigm

2 Mustafa Ali and the Politics of Cultural Despair

3 Alis Contemporaries, Facing the Millenium

5 The Golden Age as a Political Agenda: the Reform Literature

1 The Canonization of Decline

2 The Landmarks of Declinist Literature

3 Administration Manuals: an Ottoman Genre

4 The Afterlife of the Genre: Late Seventeenth-Century Manuals

6 The Sunna-Minded Trend

1 The Controversy of the Century? The Kadzadelis

2 Beyond the Social History of the Controversy

3 Ottoman Decline la Sunna

4 Political Practice and Political Thought

5 Conclusion

7 Khaldunist Philosophy: Innovation Justified

1 The Social and Ideological Struggles: between Viziers and Janissaries

2 Ktib elebi and Ottoman Khaldunism

3 Ktib elebis Immediate Influence: the Conciliation with Change

4 Naima: Stage Theory in the Service of Peace

5 Peace and Change: Preparing an Ideological Environment

8 The Eighteenth Century: the Traditionalists

1 The Eighteenth Century and Its Intellectual Climate: on Ottoman Traditionalism

2 Defterdar and His Circle

3 The Last of the Traditionalists

4 Traditional Reformers: Rivers in Confluence

9 The Eighteenth Century: the Westernizers

1 The Precursors of Nizam-i Cedid: brahim Müteferrika and the Dialogue with the West

2 Selim III and the Reform Debate

3 The Last Round: from Selim III to Mahmud II

4 The Tanzimat as Epilogue

Conclusion: towards an Ottoman Conceptual History

1 Politics

2 State

3 The Ottoman Political Vocabulary and Its Development

4 Some General Remarks

Appendix 1: Historical Timeline

Appendix 2: Samples of Translated Texts

Bibliography

Person Names

Place Names, Subjects, Terms

Titles of Works

Über Autor(innen)

Marinos Sariyannis, Ph.D. (2005), Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, is Research Director at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno, Greece. He has published several articles on Ottoman history and culture.


E. Ekin Tualp Atiyas, Ph.D. (2014), Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Boazii University, Istanbul. She focuses on seventeenth-century Ottoman social and intellectual history. She is contributing a chapter to this book.