The Sultan and His Subjects
Title | The Sultan and His Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Davey |
Publisher | London : Chapman and Hall, Limited |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Sultans |
ISBN |
Universal Empire
Title | Universal Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Fibiger Bang |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2012-08-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107022673 |
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
On the Sultan's Service
Title | On the Sultan's Service PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Scott Brookes |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2020-01-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253045533 |
The renowned Turkish author’s memoir of serving Sultan Mehmed V provides a rare look inside the palace politics of the late Ottoman Empire. Before he became one of Turkey’s most famous novelists, Halid Ziya Usakligil served as First Secretary to Sultan Mehmed V. His memoir of that time, between 1909 and 1912, provides first-hand insight into the personalities, intrigues, and inner workings of the Ottoman palace in its final decades. In post-Revolution Turkey, the palace no longer exercised political power. Instead, it negotiated the minefields between political factions, sought ways to unite the empire in the face of nationalist aspirations, and faced the opening salvos of the wars that would eventually overwhelm the country. Usakligil includes interviews with the Imperial family as well as descriptions of royal nuptials, the palaces and its visitors, and the crises that shook the court. He also delivers an insightful and moving portrait of Mehmed V, the man who reigned over the Ottoman Empire through both Balkan Wars and World War I.
The Sultan and His Subjects
Title | The Sultan and His Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Davey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Turkey |
ISBN |
The Sultan's Renegades
Title | The Sultan's Renegades PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias P. Graf |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198791437 |
The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for the sultan. Unsurprisingly, therefore, renegades have attracted considerable attention from historians of Europe as well as students of European literature. Until very recently, however, Ottomanists have been surprisingly silent on the presence of Christian-European converts in the Ottoman military-administrative elite. The Sultan's Renegades inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus on their exceptionality, towards a qualified appreciation of their place in the Ottoman imperial enterprise and the Empire's relations with its neighbours in Christian Europe. Drawing heavily on Central European sources, this study highlights the deep political, religious, and cultural entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe beyond the Mediterranean Basin as the 'shared world' par excellence. The existence of such trans-imperial subjects is not only symptomatic of the Empire's ability to attract and integrate people of a great diversity of backgrounds, it also illustrates the extent to which the Ottomans participated in processes of religious polarization usually considered typical of Christian Europe in this period. Nevertheless, Christian Europeans remained ambivalent about those they dismissed as apostates and traitors, frequently relying on them for support in the pursuit of familial and political interests.
A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
Title | A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Heather J. Sharkey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052176937X |
This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.
The Sultans
Title | The Sultans PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Barber |
Publisher | New York : Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The subject of this vast, astonishing and brilliantly readable work of history is the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire, seen through the lives and actions of its sultans, with their absolute power and terrifying cruelty, their love of pomp and magnificence and their overwhelming venality and corruption. The author describes the men, the events, the daily life, the strange customs of Turkey's court, from her emergence as a great power in the sixteenth century to the death of Kemal Ataturk, who overthrew the Sultanate to establish a new and more modern form of tyranny. This book is a unique and fascinating record of four centuries of glory, debauchery, splendor and cruelty. --from inside jacket flap.