The first of the modern Ottomans : the intellectual history of Ahmed Vasif / Ethan L. Menchinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menchinger, Ethan L., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ahmed Vâsıf Efendi, -1806.

Ahmed Vâsıf Efendi.

Historians--Turkey--Biography.

Historians.

Turkey--History--18th century.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative reform, it also lost much of its influence on the European stage through war and revolt. In this book, Ethan L. Menchinger sheds light on intellectual life, politics, and reform in the Empire through the study of one of its leading intellectuals and statesmen, Ahmed Vâsıf. Vâsıf's life reveals new aspects of Ottoman letters - heated debates over moral renewal, war and peace, justice, and free will - but it also forces the reappraisal of Ottoman political reform, showing a vital response that was deeply enmeshed in Islamic philosophy, ethics, and statecraft. Tracing Vâsıf's role through the turn of the nineteenth century, this book opens the debate on modernity and intellectualism for those students and researchers studying the Ottoman Empire, intellectual history, the Enlightenment, and Napoleonic Europe.

Contents:

Out of the east: early life (ca. 1735-1768)

At war (1768-1774)

Years of faction and reform (1774-1787)

"Honorable exile": in Spain (1787-1788)

At war (1788-1792)

Vâsıf and the new order (1792-1800)

The height of fame (1800-1806)

Epilogue: Vâsıf as ancient and modern.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-18733-1

1-108-19574-1

1-108-19454-0

1-108-19695-0

1-108-20295-0

1-108-18199-6

1-108-19815-5