The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: Studies in the History of Turkey, Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780700715008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str.

Paul Wittek;Colin Heywood

Opis

Wittek's The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938, and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The opportunity has been taken at the present reissue of Wittek's 1937 London lectures to bring together in one volume translations of his other studies on Ottoman history, dating mainly from his Brussels years.

The majority of these other studies – Two Chapters on the History of Rûm, The Sultan of Rûm, Religious Warriors in the early Ottoman State and From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople – were originally delivered in French (in one case German) at seminars or conferences in non-Nazi Europe in the mid to late 1930s. The journals in which they were originally published are for the most part inaccessible except in specialist libraries, it seems, in a period when Wittek's activities as an Ottoman historian are coming under increasing study within the Anglo-Saxon world of scholarship. In an increasingly monoglot age, his luminous and persuasive prose and historical insights should be made accessible to a wider English-reading audience.

An edited introduction sets Wittek's work in its historical and historiographical context for the benefit of those students of later and present generations who were not privileged to experience it first hand.

Recenzje

"Colin Heywood ‘s publication of Paul Wittek’s Rise of the Ottoman Empire and other works... is almost as important as the publication of the original.  Heywood has produced an outstanding, erudite work in commenting on Wittek's life and career... Heywood has succeeded in vigorously reasserting Wittek’s indisputable place in Ottoman historiography and his own fine contribution to the same history. We all should be grateful to him not only for signalling Wittek’s extraordinary contribution to Seljuki and Ottoman historiography but also for bringing to historians’ attention many of Wittek’s lesser-known works and clarifying their content and the circumstance of their writing." - Kemal H. Karpat, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Int. J. Turkish Studies Vol. 18, Nos. 1&2, 2012

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire  1. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire  Part 2: Precursors of the Rise  2. The Sultan of Rum  3. Two Chapters in the History of Rum  4. Two Conference Papers From Leiden (1936)  5. From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople (A Half-Century of Ottoman History)  6. Two Essays on Mehmed II: Muhammed II and Fath Mubin