Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker's lead, the mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations, from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia, and from the Ukrainian steppes to the highlands of Yemen. Publications in the series draw on the philological groundwork generated by the literary tradition, but in their...
Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich B...
A dynasty that ruled for more than six centuries certainly developed many strategies to confront "legitimacy crises" and undertook various endeavors to legitimize their rule. After the introduction that establishes a theoretical framework for examining the Ottoman state's legitimacy, the present volume deploys into three sections. "The Well-Founded Order" deals with the question of how the Ottomans imagined the order of their polity and how they tried to live up to this self-representation. "Religiosity and Orthodoxy" turns to the question of religiosity and orthodoxy as defined by Ottoman...
A dynasty that ruled for more than six centuries certainly developed many strategies to confront "legitimacy crises" and undertook various endeavors t...
In einer Zeit intensivierter Reformpolitik in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts begann sich die osmanische Burokratie von den ethnischen und religiosen Gruppen des Reiches einen neuen Begriff zu machen. Die traditionelle osmanische Auffassung von einem ewigen Kreislauf des Verlustes und der Wiederherstellung von Ordnung verengte und radikalisierte sich: Die osmanischen Untertanen sollten "modernisiert" und "zivilisiert" werden. Der Vergleich der osmanischen Politik in Nordalbanien mit derjenigen in einer arabischen Region (Libanongebirge) tragt nicht zuletzt zur Uberwindung der durch...
In einer Zeit intensivierter Reformpolitik in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts begann sich die osmanische Burokratie von den ethnischen und religiosen G...
