Paul Wittek

The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth Centuries
Herausgeber: Heywood, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

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 his other studies on Ottoman history; five closely interconnected writings from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780700715008
• ISBN-10: 0700715002
• Artikelnr.: 34745116

Autorenporträt

Paul Wittek (1894--1978) was one of the leading Ottoman historians of his generation. After serving in the old k. u. k. Armee in Galicia, Italy and Turkey, and an eventful career in Austria, Turkey and Belgium, in 1949 he became the first holder of the Chair of Turkish at the University of London. Colin Heywood has taught Middle Eastern history at a number of American universities and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he took courses with Wittek in the 1950s. He is currently a member of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull; his areas of active research include the early modern maritime history of the Mediterranean and the intellectual legacy of Wittek's contributions to Ottoman history.

Inhaltsangabe

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