Legitimizing the order : the Ottoman rhetoric of state power / / edited by Hakan T. Karateke, Maurus Reinkowski.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, v. 34
• TeilnehmendeR: Karateke, Hakan T.; Reinkowski, Maurus.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The various strategies as to how the Ottoman sultans and the ruling elite tried to inculcate their understanding of authority and legitimacy into the Ottoman population are the focus of the articles in this collected volume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction (Hakan Karateke & Maurus Reinkowski); Legitimizing the Ottoman Sultanate: A Framework for Historical Analysis (Hakan Karateke); THE WELL-FOUNDED ORDER; Legitimacy and World Order (Gottfried Hagen); Murad III and the Historians: Representations of Ottoman Imperial Authority in Late 16th-Century Historiography (Christine Woodhead); Frozen Legitimacy (Colin Imber); RELIGIOSITY AND ORTHODOXY; Opium for the Subjects? Religiosity as a Legitimizing Factor for the Ottoman Sultan (Hakan Karateke)

Kalam in the Service of State: Apostasy and the Defining of Ottoman Islamic Identity (Nabil Al-Tikriti)Inventing Orthodoxy: Competing Claims for Authority and Legitimacy in the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict (Markus Dressler); THE "CRISIS" OF OTTOMAN LEGITIMACY; Guildsmen Complain to the Sultan: Artisans' Disputes and the Ottoman Administration in the 18th Century (Suraiya Faroqhi); The State's Security and the Subjects' Prosperity: Notions of Order in Ottoman Bureaucratic Correspondence (19th Century) (Maurus Reinkowski)

Civil Officialdom and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire (1876-1922) (Teyfur Erdogdu)Bibliography (Indices); Index of Names and Places; Index of Subjects