The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif

ISBN-13: 9781107197978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 356 str.

Ethan L. Menchinger

Opis

This book explores intellectual life, politics and reform in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire by studying statesman and historian Ahmed Vasif.

Recenzje

'Although there are a few good biographies of well-known Ottoman bureaucrats and intellectuals, intimate accounts of Ottoman individuals have not proliferated in modern scholarship. Ethan L. Menchinger's The First of the Modern Ottomans is therefore a very welcome and well-executed contribution to this genre … [This is] required reading for all who want to understand the intellectual history of the period …' Hakan Karateke, Professor of Ottoman Turkish Culture, Language and Literature, University of Chicago

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Dramatis personae; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Out of the east: early life (c.1735–68); 2. At war (1768–74); 3. Years of faction and reform (1774–87); 4. 'Honorable exile': in Spain (1787–8); 5. At war (1788–92); 6. Vâsıf and the new order (1792–1800); 7. The height of fame (1800–6); 8. Epilogue: Vâsıf as ancient and modern; Appendix: on the authorship of the Final Word to Refute the Rabble; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.