The Ottomans : dissolving images
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The Ottomans : dissolving images
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1995
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The Ottomans
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-[301]) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Ottoman Empire was a "mystery wrapped inside the enigma". This book aims to unravel the mystery in two ways. Firstly, it looks at the Ottomans and their world in terms relevant to an eastern Islamic society, with its own principles and practices that seemed merely barbaric to the West. The book also comes to terms with the West's expectations of the Ottomans. The author's aim is both to tell the story and offer some explanation. The book interprets the Ottomans, to make sense of a society that to Western eyes seemed feckless and utterly corrupt, cruel and craven by turns. It was frequently all of these things but not without reason or cause.
Table of Contents
- The world's last day - the fall of the Byzantine empire
- at the gate of bliss - the shaping of Ottoman power
- strangled with a silken cord - the constraints of Ottomanism
- "The auspicious event" - the extirpation of the Janissaries
- Stamboul, the city - Western images of the Ottomans
- dreams from the rose pavilion - the meandering path of reform
- "the lustful turk" "the terrible turk".
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