31 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of the elite, while less privileged than the males, ...

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of the elite, while less privileged than the males, ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Das Osmanische Reich umfasste am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts trotz großer Gebietseinbußen immer noch das gesamte Gebiet der heutigen Staaten Türkei, Irak, Syrien, Libanon, Israel und Teile Griechenlands. Suraiya Faroqhi schildert kenntnisreich und lebendig die Geschichte des mächtigen Reiches von seinen Anfängen im Spätmittelalter bis zu seinem Untergang am Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs. Neben der politischen Geschichte bezieht sie Wirtschaft, Gese...

This collection of essays represents a sample of Suraiya Faroqhi's groundbreaking work into Ottoman social and economic history. In it, she looks at individuals and structures in the Ottoman provinces.

This collection of articles by Suraiya Faroqhi looks at Ottoman society and state from the unique perspective of the Ottoman provinces.

Sorto nel XV secolo sulle rovine dello stato selgiuchide e di Bisanzio, l'impero ottomano si estende rapidamente sino alle frontiere dell'Austria-Ungheria, in Medio Oriente e nell'Africa settentrionale. Questo volume ne ripercorre la storia politica dalle origini all'apogeo, e poi fino alla sua disgregazione, cominciata già nel XVII secolo e consumatasi nel corso dell'Ottocento, con il risveglio dei nazionalismi balcanici e sotto la spinta imp...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking. ...

In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan--the perceived successor to the Caliphs--supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather a long-established network of diplomatic, financial, cultural and religious connections. These extended to the empires of Asia and the modern states ...

Revisionist historiography of the Ottoman Empire using previously unpublished sources by a leading specialist.

Explores the unknown world of ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire, filled with vivid detail of everyday life in a now-vanished world. A new look at Turkish cultural and social history from the world's leading authority.

The Illuminated Table, the Prosperous House brings together fourteen articles by researchers from Turkey and a number of European countries such as France, Germany and Poland. These articles deal with two of the major aspects of material culture, namely food and drink on the one hand, and housing on the other. In no society is it indifferent how people eat and drink, dress and dwell, to the contrary these matters are always highly charged on t...

Volume 2 examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603.

Keine Beschreibung.

This book is an exciting and valuable contribution to the field of Ottoman history in general, and guild studies in particular. The editor's sweeping introductory synthesis alone is an unparalleled round-up of the latest research...this introduction, and the following chapters, broach most if not all the "big questions" relating to the study of guilds and their history." · Pascale Ghazaleh, The American University in Cairo The newly awakene...

The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions under which thousands of pilgrims from far flung regions of the Islamic world travelled to the heart of the Arabian peninsula. This pioneering book concentrates on the pilgrimage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Mecca was ruled by the Ottoman sultans. At a time when, for the majority...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.