The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege

ISBN-13: 9781399508612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

OZOK GUNDOGAN NILAY

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; a. The question of the autonomy of kurdish emirates in the ottoman empire; a. Hereditary privilege and modernity: the question of the nobility’s decline; a. Historical geography of palu; a.organization of the book; part i: a tenuous accord; chapter i: at the beginning: the formation of the kurdish-ottoman nobility of palu in the sixteenth century; a. First encounter: war, diplomacy, and the ottoman entry into kurdistan; a. Kurdish nobility in the ottoman politico-administrative system; genealogies, pedigrees, noble titles: the nobility of the palu begs; b. The noble privilege of palu begs; a. Conclusion; chapter: noble privilege on the ground, 1720s-1820s; a. The raison d’être of nobility: palu begs as noble warriors; a. Kurdish begs’ changing military roles in the seventeenth century; a. Nobility under-mined? The palu begs and mine service; keban &ergani mines in the imperial economy; b. Nobility and mine service; palu begs vs. The unstoppable rise of a mine superintendent: yusuf ziya pasha; a. Land: palu begs’ control over land and the changing meanings of fiscal autonomy in the eighteenth century; b. Competition over agrarian surplus; b. Tax farming and leasing; b. The emergence of çiftliks; a. An alternative discourse of nobility? Seyyids vs. The begs; conclusion; part ii: a quasi-rift; chapter 3: the kurdish nobility and the making of modern state power in kurdistan; modern state formation as a global phenomenon; a. Kurdistan on the eve of the tanzimat; a. The making of the modern state’s power in kurdistan: institutional infrastructure; a. The question of hereditary ownership of land by the kurdish begs; conclusion; chapter 4: a system in transition: negotiating nobility in the locality; a. The anxieties of mine work; a. From noble begs to tax collectors; a. Abdullah beg: the rise of a beg as a tax collector; a. The begs, the sarrafs, and the credit nexus; a. Mounting pressure in the agrarian sector; a. Palu begs and sharecroppers; a. Conclusion; chapter 5: the we?in incident: the spark that burnt a village . . . And the arsonist; a. The incident: what really happened in we?in?; a. Mustafa sabri pasha: the governor, the nobility, and the tanzimat state; a. Abdullah beg vs. The we?in village in the imperial capital: confrontation at the meclis-i vâlâ; a. Conclusion; part iii: restructuring and violence; chapter 6: after abdullah beg: the politics of dividing the kurdish nobles’ lands; a. What to do with abdullah beg’s land after his death?; b. Land; 220b. Tax; competing claims on palu land; b. The begs and the aghas; b. Cultivators; a. Something resembling a resolution; a. Plans vs. Reality: dividing lands on the ground; the buyers of land; b. Land sales; anxieties around the collection of agrarian surplus; the curious case of noksan-? arz; the crisis of representation; conclusion; chapter 7: provincial administration after the palu nobility; tax-collector/local administrator: the political economy of müdürlük; müdür appointments; rush to müdür-hood; transition to kaymakaml?k; and its kaymakams; deputy kaymakams (kaymakam muavini) and the representation of the non-muslims; conclusion; chapter 8: the beginning of the endgame? The road to the 1895 massacres in palu; the begs; the state; the armenians; violence and massacres; conclusion; conclusion; postscript; glossary; select bibliography; archival sources; collection of documents and published primary sources; secondary sources; Index.