The rise of the Ottoman Empire : studies in the history of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries

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    • Heywood, Colin
    • Lindner, Rudi Paul
    • Welsh, Oliver
    • Binbaş, İlker Evrim

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The rise of the Ottoman Empire : studies in the history of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries

Paul Wittek ; with translations into English by Colin Heywood, Rudi Paul Lindner and Oliver Welsh ; with a preface by İlker Evrim Binbaş ; edited by Colin Heywood with an introduction and afterword

(Royal Asiatic Society books)

Routledge, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Paul 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 present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and the reign of Mehmed II. Most of these pieces reproduces the texts of lectures or conference papers delivered by Wittek between 1936 and 1938 when he was teaching at Universite Libre in Brussels, Belgium. The books or journals in which they were originally published are for the most part inaccessible except in specialist libraries, in a period when Wittek's activities as an Ottoman historian, in particular his formulations regarding the origins and subsequent history of the Ottoman state (the "Ghazi thesis"), are coming under increasing study within the Anglo-Saxon world of scholarship. An introduction by Colin Heywood sets Wittek's work in its historical and historiographical context for the benefit of those students who were not privileged to experience it firsthand. This reissue and recontextualizing of Wittek's pioneering work on early Ottoman history makes a valuable contribution to the field and to the historiography of Asian and Middle Eastern history generally.

Table of Contents

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

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  • NCID
    BB10120291
  • ISBN
    • 9780700715008
  • LCCN
    2011024483
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Milton Park, Abingdon
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiii, 194 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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