A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire.Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)

History

HEATH W. LOWRY

Middle East

State Univ of New York Pr

A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Soci Econ Hist Mid East (Dis))

Business & Money

Economics

State University of New York Press

Clarence K. Streit's The Unknown Turks : Mustafa Kemal Pasa, Nationalist Ankara &amp; Daily Life in Anatolia. January - March 1921

Clarence K.Streit's The Unknown Turks

Bahcesehir University Press

Since 2005, Heath Lowry has traveled extensively in northern Greece. The present study is the outcome of those visits. Wherever he has gone, he has been accompanied by Evliya Çelebi and his Seyehatname. As a result of those travels, he has published several books and numerous articles, all of which reflects the debt he owes the 17th century traveler. The present study is intended as his homage to Evliya Çelebi and to the rapidly disappearing Ottoman legacy in northern Greece.

In the Footsteps of Evliya Çelebi

Bahçesehir Üniversitesi Yayinlari

From the dust jacket:A consistent feature of the author's work throughout the past three decades has been his pioneering utilization of the 15th- and 16th-century tax registers (tahrir defter) maintiand by the Ottoman bureaucracy. In a series of books and articles, he has examined areas from Trabzon in northeastern Anatolia to Selanik (Thessaloniki) in Macedonia, with the object of shedding light on the status and rule of the state's Muslim and non-Muslim inhabitants.This work continues his earlier studies, albeit on a wider screen. On the basis of the testimony of the surviving 15th-century tax registers, it examines the manner in which the region of present-day northern Greece (and by extension the Balkans as a whole) was incorporated into the Ottman polity in the course of the 14th and 15th centuries. It then weighs the resulting profile against the silent testimony of the Ottoman architectural remains in the region, in an attempt to determine the actual steps of conquest, settlement and infrastructural development.Given the fact that heretofore, much of our knowledge of early Ottoman history has been based on the later Ottoman chronicle tradition, the tone of this book is revisionist, that is it challenges much of the conventional wisdom. Its arguments are illustrated by a large body of pictures (likewise taken by the author), depicting the physical remains of the half-mellennium-long Ottoman presence in the region. As such it represents a unique example of the manner in which by a careful utilization of architectural and archaeological remains, together with the earliest surviving bureaucratic records, supplemented by the testimony of travellers, it is possible to refine our understanding of early Ottoman history.

The Shaping of the Ottoman Balkans, 1350 -1550: the Conquest, Settlement and Infrastructural Development of Northern Greece

Bahcesehir Uni.Yayinlari

In the Footsteps of the Ottomans

Bahcesehir University

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