Empire of salons : conquest and community in early modern Ottoman Lands / Helen Pfeifer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfeifer, Helen, 1984- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghazzī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1499-1577.

Ghazzī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad.

Salons--Middle East--History--16th century.

Salons.

Turkey--History--1453-1683.

Turkey.

Arab countries--Intellectual life.

Arab countries.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance. Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In 'Empire of Salons', Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer demonstrates that salons, exclusive assemblies in which elite men displayed their knowledge and status, contributed as much as any formal institution to the empire's political stability. These key laboratories of Ottoman culture, society, and politics helped men to build relationships and exchange ideas across the far-flung Ottoman lands. Pfeifer shows that salons played a central role in Syria and Egypt's integration into the empire after the conquest of 1516-17.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on Usage

Introduction

1. A World Divided

2. An Empire Connecting

3. A Place in the Elite

4. The Art of Conversation

5. The Transmission of Knowledge

6. An Empire Polarized

Conclusion

Appendix: Key Figures

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9780691224954

0691224951

OCLC:

1290020663