Heather L Ferguson

The Proper Order of Things

Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses

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Produktbeschreibung

Heather L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Middle East and Ottoman History at Claremont McKenna College. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781503603561
• ISBN-10: 1503603563
• Artikelnr.: 48860411

Autorenporträt

Heather L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Middle East and Ottoman History at Claremont McKenna College. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Structure of Empire and a Grammar of Rule
1. The Sovereign State: Spatial and Textual Politics in Early Modern
Eurasian Courts
2. The State of Stability: The Kanunname as a Genre for Administrative
Governance
3. The Bureaucratic State: Reforming Documentary Practices
4. The Brokered State: "The Past Is No Longer the Present" in the "Land
Between the Rivers"
5. A State of Rebellion: The Reterritorialization of Ottoman Sovereignty in
Greater Syria
6. On the Perfect State: An Ottoman Vision of Order
Conclusion: The Archiving State