Ebook: The crisis of kingship in late medieval Islam : Persian emigres and the making of Ottoman sovereignty
Author: İdrîs Bitlîsî, Markiewicz Christopher
- Tags: İdrîs Bitlîsî -- -1520, Monarchy -- Turkey, Turkey -- Politics and government, Political science -- Turkey -- History -- 16th century, Sovereignty, Monarchy, Political science, Politics and government, Turkey
- Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: Array
- Language: English
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In the early sixteenth century, the political landscape of West Asia was completely transformed: of the previous four major powers, only one - the Ottoman Empire - continued to exist. Ottoman survival was, in part, predicated on transition to a new mode of kingship, enabling its transformation from regional dynastic sultanate to empire of global stature. In this book, Christopher Markiewicz uses as a departure point Read more...