The nature of the early Ottoman state /
Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success du...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003
Albany : c2003 Albany : [2003] |
| Series: | SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East |
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Table of Contents:
- The Debate to Date
- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's iskendername
- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription
- What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans?
- Toward A New Explanation
- Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
- The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism-The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite
- The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
- 1 The Debate to Date
- 2. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername
- 3. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription
- 4. What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans?
- 5. Toward A New Explanation
- 6. Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
- 7. The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism - The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite
- 8. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State.
- 1 The Debate to Date
- 2. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername
- 3. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription
- 4. What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans?
- 5. Toward A New Explanation
- 6. Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
- 7. The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism - The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite
- 8. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State.
- 1 The Debate to Date 5
- 2 Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername 15
- 3 Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription 33
- 4 What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans? 45
- 5 Toward A New Explanation 55
- 6 Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 95
- 7 The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism--The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite 115