Scholars and sultans in the early modern Ottoman Empire / Abdurrahman Atçıl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atçıl, Abdurrahman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

During the early Ottoman period (1300-1453), scholars in the empire carefully kept their distance from the ruling class. This changed with the capture of Constantinople. From 1453 onwards, the Ottoman government co-opted large groups of scholars, usually over a thousand at a time, and employed them in a hierarchical bureaucracy to fulfill educational, legal and administrative tasks. Abdurrahman Atçıl explores the factors that brought about this gradual transformation of scholars into scholar-bureaucrats, including the deliberate legal, bureaucratic and architectural actions of the Ottoman sultans and their representatives, scholars' own participation in shaping the rules governing their status and careers, and domestic and international events beyond the control of either group.

Contents:

Scholars During the Early Ottoman Period (1300

1453).- Post-Mongol realities in Anatolia and the Ottomans

Madrasas and scholars in Ottoman lands

The Formation of the Hierarchy (1453

1530). Introducing the Ottoman Empire

Scholars in Mehmed II's Nascent imperial bureaucracy (1453

1481)

Scholar-bureaucrats realize their power (1481

1530)

The Consolidation of the Hierarchy (1530

1600). The focus of attention changes

The ascendance of dignitary scholar-bureaucrats (Mevali)

The growth and extension of the hierarchy

The rules and patterns of differentiation among scholar-bureaucrats

The integration of scholar-bureaucrats in multiple career tracks.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-10604-8

1-108-11013-4

1-108-11081-9

1-108-11149-1

1-108-11489-X

1-108-11217-X

1-108-11421-0

1-316-81932-9

OCLC:

971209653