Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition
Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition

Author: Norman Itzkowitz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-03-26

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 022609801X

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This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-century confrontation with a rapidly modernizing Europe. Itzkowitz delineates the fundamental institutions of the Ottoman state, the major divisions within the society, and the basic ideas on government and social structure. Throughout, Itzkowitz emphasizes the Ottomans' own conception of their historical experience, and in so doing penetrates the surface view provided by the insights of Western observers of the Ottoman world to the core of Ottoman existence.

Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750
Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750

Author: Tijana Krstić

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9004440291

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Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres—ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents—developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘orthopraxy’ as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire. Contributors: Helen Pfeifer; Nabil al-Tikriti; Derin Terzioğlu; Tijana Krstić; Nir Shafir; Guy Burak; Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu; Grigor Boykov; H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu; Ünver Rüstem; Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer; Vefa Erginbaş; Selim Güngörürler.

Contested Conversions to Islam
Contested Conversions to Islam

Author: Tijana Krstic

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011-05-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0804773173

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This book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.

The Steppe Tradition in International Relations
The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Author: Iver B. Neumann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1108368913

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Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition'. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition's ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey.

Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic
Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic

Author: Amit Bein

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0804773114

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This book explores the intellectual debates and political movements of the religious establishment during the first half of the 20th century.

Culture and Order in World Politics
Culture and Order in World Politics

Author: Andrew Phillips

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1108484972

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Provides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.

Islamic Imperialism
Islamic Imperialism

Author: Efraim Karsh

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0300122632

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From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior, and that foremost among these is Islam's millenarian imperial tradition. The author explores the history of Islam's imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behavior or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam's war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.

Ebu's-su'ud
Ebu's-su'ud

Author: Colin Imber

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1474469442

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The Jurist Ebu's-su`ud (c1490-1574) occupies a key position in the history of Islamic Law. He was a scholar who, for forty years, occupied successfully the senior judicial positions in the Ottoman Empire. Confronting the problem of reconciling classical Islamic jurisprudence with the day-to-day legal needs of an empire, he earned an enduring reputation as the jurist who harmonised the Holy Law of Islam with secular practice. The book examines the substance of this reputation by showing, through Ebu's-su`ud's writings, how he adapted classical Islamic legal doctrine to contemporary needs.