An Ottoman tragedy : history and historiography at play
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An Ottoman tragedy : history and historiography at play
(Studies on the history of society and culture / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, editors, 50)
University of California Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index
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Description
In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax 'an Ottoman Tragedy'. Under Gabriel Piterberg's deft analysis, this period of crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century - an opportunity to observe the dialectical play between history as an occurrence and experience and history as a recounting of that experience. Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman narration of this fraught period from the foundational text, produced in the early 1620s, to the composition of the state narrative at the end of the seventeenth century. His work brings theories of historiography into dialogue with the actual interpretation of Ottoman historical texts, and forces a rethinking of both Ottoman historiography and the Ottoman state in the seventeenth century.
A provocative reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history, this work reconceives the relation between historiography and history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction: The Content and Form of This Study PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. The Plot 2. The Formation and Study of Ottoman Historiography 3. An Interpretive Framework PART II: HISTORIOGRAPHY 4. Tubi's Representation of the Haile-i Osmaniye: The Perspective of the Imperial Army 5. The Formation of Alternative Narratives: Hasanbeyzade and Pecevi 6. The Conception of the State Narrative PART III: THE STATE 7. The Early Modern Ottoman State: History and Theory 8. The Ottoman State as a Discursively Contested Field Epilogue: Poetics of Ottoman Historiography: Preliminary Notes Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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