V.L. Menage

Ottoman Historical Documents

The Institutions of an Empire
Herausgeber: Imber, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed, and how they functioned in practice. Each text benefits from a brief contextualising introduction, annotations and a glossary explaining technical terminology and problems of interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781474479370
• ISBN-10: 1474479375
• Artikelnr.: 59413117

Autorenporträt

V. L. Ménage (1920-2015) was Professor of Turkish at SOAS, London. Colin Imber was formerly a Reader in Turkish at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

The Islamic Months The Ottoman Sultans, c1300-1687 List of Illustrations Preface Maps Figures Chapter I: The Dynasty: Legitimation and Titulature Section 1: The Assertions of the Chroniclers 1. The voice of the dervishes: the dream of Ertogrul a. From the Anonymous Chronicles b. From the Tevarikh-i Al-i
O
man 2. The voice of the gazis: how
Osman became an independent ruler 3. The voice of the
ulema: how
Osman became an independent ruler a. Kitab-i Cihan-nüma about why
Osman is called gazi b. Kitab-i Cihan-nüma about how drum and standard came to
Osman 4. Pagan Turkish tradition: the genealogy of the Ottoman sultans a. Yazicioglu 'Ali on the line of
Osman b. Sükrullah on the line of
Osman 5. Conflation in the Oxford Anonymous Chronicle Section 2: Titulature: Caliphal Claims 1. Inscription of Kay
osrev II (1236-46) on the sea walls at Antalya 2. Inscription on the tomb of the Aydin-oglu Mu
ammad (d. 1334) at Birgi 3. Inscription of 1337. from the Sehadet Mosque in Bursa 4. Inscription from a bridge in Ankara, dated 1375 5. Other inscriptions referring to Murad I 6. Dedicatory notice in a Qur
an preserved in the mausoleum of Murad I 7. Inscription on the tomb of Bayezid I, dated 809/1406-7 8. Title-page of an almanac (in Persian), dated 824. (1421) 9. A reference in
ursun Beg's History of Me
med II 10. A reference in Celalzade's History of Süleyman I 11. Ebu
s-Su
ud's proemium to his statement on 'state lands' 12. The second deposition of Mu
afa I, 1623 13. Fatwas on the Ghalzay Ashraf, 1726 14. Süleyman I to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, 1554 Sources Chapter II: The Dynasty: Princes Section 1: The Appointment of Princes in the Early Fourteenth Century 1.
Osman's sons 2. Or
an's sons 3. Or
an's sons, after the conquest of Nicaea Section 2: Princely Governorships 1. Prince
orkud leaves Istanbul for his governorship 2. A letter from Prince
Alemsah's mother Gülru
to Bayezid II 3. A decree of Prince A
med to the yaya yoldaslar 4. A decree of Prince Selim [II] 5. A decree of Prince Me
med [III] Section 3: Fratricide 1. Statement of the former Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos 2. The accession of Bayezid I, 1389 a. From the Anonymous Chronicles 3. The civil war (1402-13) 4. The accession of Murad II, 1421 5. The accession of Bayezid II, 1481 6. The first accession of Me
med II, 1444 7. The second accession of Me
med II, 1451 a. From Michael Doukas's Historia Turco-Byzantina b. From Ibn Kemal's Tevârih-i Âl-i Osmân 8. Popular criticism of fratricide: the story of the abdication of
Ali Pasha 9. The accession of Me
med III, 1595 10. The accession of A
med I, 1603 Sources Chapter III: The Dynasty: Recruitment into the Sultan's Service Section 1: Pencik and Devsirme 1. A decree regulating the pencik 2. Tolls to be levied on slaves taken across the Bosphorus 3. A template decree for levying boys for the devsirme 4. A Janissary lobbies the sultan on behalf of his family 5. Escaping the devsirme 6. The recovery of a captured novice Section 2: Promotion to the Sultan's Service 1. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1562/3 2. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1567/8 3. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1560/1 4. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1573/4 5. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1583 6. The pay of palace servants: an account register from 1478 Section 3: Berats 1. The appointment of a preacher in Bursa 2. The appointment of a beglerbegi 3. The appointment of a
a
i 4. The appointment of a metropolitan 5. The appointment of mountain guards Sources Chapter IV: The Vizierate and the Divan 1. The A
af-name of Lu
fi Pasa 2. The divan: a Venetian account 3. Submissions to the sultan a. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi
asan Pasa b. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi
asan Pasa c. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi
asan Pasa d. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi
asan Pasa e. Submission of Yemisçi
asan Pasa f. Submission of the grand vizier Me
med Pasa 4. The sultan's written instructions 5. Death of a grand vizier: report of Henry Lello Sources Chapter V: The Provincial Administration and the Timar System 1. From the report of Iacopo de Promontorio, c1475-80 2. An entry in a timar-register, with marginal notes a. Timar of Inebegi and
üseyn, sons of ser
asker
asan b. [Possibly relating to the village of Yilinça] c. [possibly relating to the village of Pirvol] 3. Two entries from the detailed register of Amid, 1518 a. Timar of Yemini the Kurd, a sipahi of the sanca
of Amid b. Timar of Sa
du
llah the ya
avul, a sipahi of the sanca
of Amid 4. Sundry marginal notes in a summary-register of c1445, Thessaloniki etc. 5. Marginal notes in a similar register of 1455, Skopje a. Timar of Musa, retainer (
idmetkar) of
Isa Beg b. Timar of Yusuf, kinsman of the mir-a
ur
amza Beg 6. Two timar grants a. Thessaloniki: the timar of Me
med b. Yala
abad [in the sanca
of]
ocaeli 7. Conversion of privately-owned revenue to a
a
-estate 8. A call for volunteers before the Moldavian campaign, 1484 9. Submissions by and to the sanca
begi of Bosnia, c1512-14 a. The sanca
begi of Iskodra to Yunus Pasa of Bosnia b. The sancak begi of Zvornik to Yunus c. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the na
ib of Visoka d. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the Porte e. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the Porte f. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the Porte g. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the Pasa h. The sanca
begi of Bosnia to the Pasa 10. 'The good old days' Sources Chapter VI: The Religio-Legal Institution Section 1: Law and Religious Practice 1. Passages on the law of sale from
anafi legal texts a. From al-Matn of al-Quduri (d. 1037) b. From al-Ikhtiyar fi ta
lil al-Mukhtar of al-Mu
ili (d. 1284) c. From al-Fatawa of Qa
ikhan (d. 1195) 2. A fatwa on the application of Shafi
i doctrine 3. A fatwa on acquiring land for a new mosque construction 4. A fatwa on taxing land occupied by descendants of the Prophet 5. A fatwa on a
a
i granting unauthorised tax exemptions 6. A fatwa on Rumelian
a
is issuing
üccets 7. A fatwa on sipahis taking a tithe 8. A fatwa on Muslim villagers neglecting prayer 9. A fatwa on money fines for neglecting prayer 10. A fatwa on executing a repentant heretic sey
11. Command to the sanca
begi of Amasya 12. Command to the sanca
begi of Amasya, Ilyas beg 13. To the sanca
begi of Kastamonu and the
a
i of Küre 14. To the
a
i of Niksar Section 2: The Administration of Law 1. A
üccet on repairs to a monastery on Mount Athos 2. A
üccet on returning a defective slave-girl to the vendor 3. A sicill-entry on the sale of a vacant site by a Muslim to a dhimmi 4. A sicill-entry on a debt owed by a dhimmi to a Muslim 5. A sicill-entry on a money loan 6. A sicill-entry on the daughter of a recent convert 7. A sicill-entry on divorce and the legality of the wife's second marriage 8. A sicill-entry on cloth measuring short 9. A sicill-entry on unsatisfactory goods 10. A sicill-entry on a complaint by the weavers' guild 11. A sicill-entry on a smith not receiving his dues 12. A sicill-entry on the payment of tax on a slave girl 13. A sicill-entry on the ownership of sheep 14. A sicill-entry on a burglary 15. A sicill-entry on a violent argument between father and son 16. A sicill-entry of a command to the sanca
begis and
a
is of Ana
oli 17. A sicill-entry of a command to the
a
i and the inspector of mu
a
a
as 18. A fatwa on contracting marriage between minors 19. A fatwa on the validity of contracting marriage without the
a
i 20. A fatwa on re-marrying without intermediate marriage 21. A fatwa on giving customs money as zakat 22. A fatwa on giving alms 23. A fatwa on a preacher's statement about a
a
i 24. A fatwa on the testimony of foreign merchants (
arbi) against a dhimmi 25. A fatwa on a Christian woman's charitable endowment 26. A fatwa on the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul and its surroundings 27. A fatwa on slaves purchasing slaves of their own 28. A fatwa on the sultan's slaves contracting marriages 29. A fatwa on a
a
i acting outside his jurisdiction 30. A fatwa on the dismissal of a debauched
a
i 31. A fatwa on the death of a falsely accused person after wrongful torture 32. A fatwa on extortionate loan transactions 33. A fatwa on tax income for sipahis 34. A fatwa on tax income, including in kind, for sipahis 35. A fatwa on bennak tax 36. A fatwa on capitation tax (ispençe), grape tithe and taxes on pigs 37. A fatwa on a rebellious son of the sultan 38. A fatwa on those who lead the sultan astray 39. A fatwa on deposing a sultan who disturbs order by accepting bribery 40. A fatwa on the legality of killing fomenters of corruption 41. A fatwa on punishment for a thief stealing from the imperial treasury Sources Chapter VII:
anunnames 1. The 'Kraelitz text' 2. The
anunname of
üdavendgar, 1487 3. Extracts from the 'general'
anunname, c1500 4. The
anunname of Siverek, 1518 5. The
anunname of Sis, 1518 6. The
anunname of Nikopol, reign of Süleyman I a. Instructions on dealing with the timars of the district b. Exposition of the
anunname of the voynu
s 7. Extracts from the
anunname of Egypt, after 1525 Sources Chapter VIII: Taxation and Finance 1. Annual income and expenditure of the Imperial Treasury a. An estimate of treasury income and expenditure, c1475-80 b. An estimate of treasury income and expenditure for the years 1527-8 2. Customs and mu
a
a
as a. Entry from a register of mu
a
a
as b. Entry from a register of mu
a
a
as c. A decree granting a mu
a
a
a d. The problems of a tax-farmer e. Demand for the delivery of payment due from a tax-farm f. Tax avoidance g. Tax arrangements in newly conquered fortified towns h. A command written to the
a
i and the fortress-commander of Kili 3. Silver mines a. Instructions to a farmer of silver mines b. Extract from a register for Bosnia, 1489 4. Jizya a. Instructions to a jizya-collector b. Two extracts from a jizya register c. Accounts for the jizya of the infidels of the vilayet of Menlik 5. Debasement of the coinage a. Debasement under Me
med II b. A debasement heralds a mutiny Sources Chapter IX: Waqfs Section 1: Foundation and Function 1. Founding a waqf 2. A vizieral waqf 3. A new waqf 4. Waqfs established by conquerors and colonisers a. The waqf of Murad I b.The waqf of the
aru Sey
c. Note protecting dervishes who descend from the district's conqueror 5. The Waqf of Musa a. A note on the village of
izil Delü, 1412 b. A register entry on the waqf of
izil Delü, sixteenth century c. A renewed berat for
izil Delü Sultan's waqf, 1641/2 d. An undated register entry on the waqf of
izil Delü e. Note appended to an undated register entry on the waqf of
izil Delü 6. The Waqf of Or
an 7. Waqfs in decline a. The Waqf of Dervis Bayezid in Seydi Kavagi b. The Waqf of Sagri
atun c. Waqf of the zaviye of
a
i
ala
u
d-Din 8. The waqfiya of Selçük bint
Abdu
llah, freedwoman of Me
med Section 2: Problems 1. A cash and family waqf 2. Cash and charitable waqfs a. The Waqf of charitable donors (erbab-i
ayrat) in the quarter b. Waqf of charitable donors c. Waqf of
acci Me
med in the village of Seynelü d. The Waqf of
acci
asan b. Uruc the Felter 3. Cash waqfs: Questions of legality a. A question on donating profit from interest b. A question on interest c. A question on using legal devices d. A question on making restitution for not lending out waqf moneys Sources Chapter X: Treaties and Foreign Relations 1. The Genoese treaty with Murad I, 1387 2. The Byzantine-Turkish Treaty of 1403 3. The peace settlement of 1444 a. The sworn statement of Ibrahim Beg of
araman, 1444 b. The Treaty of Edirne, 1444 4. A grant of peace and of free passage for merchants 5. An offer to pay tribute 6. The peace terms offered by Süleyman I to Charles V, 1547 7. The English capitulations, 1580 8. The troubles of an ambassador 9. Latin text of the agreement at Zsitva-Torok, 1606 Sources Glossary; Bibliography; Index