Heath W Lowry

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State

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Produktbeschreibung

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 during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780791456361
• ISBN-10: 0791456366
• Artikelnr.: 22168443

Autorenporträt

Heath W. Lowry is Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University and the author of Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.