Empire of Salons (eBook)

Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Helen Pfeifer (Autor)

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2022
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22495-4 (ISBN)

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A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer demonstrates that salons-exclusive assemblies in which elite men displayed their knowledge and status-contributed as much as any formal institution to the empire's political stability. These key laboratories of Ottoman culture, society, and politics helped men to build relationships and exchange ideas across the far-flung Ottoman lands. Pfeifer shows that salons played a central role in Syria and Egypt's integration into the empire after the conquest of 1516-17.Pfeifer anchors her narrative in the life and network of the star scholar of sixteenth-century Damascus, Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi (d. 1577), and she reveals that Arab elites were more influential within the empire than previously recognized. Their local knowledge and scholarly expertise competed with, and occasionally even outshone, that of the most powerful officials from Istanbul. Ultimately, Ottoman culture of the era was forged collaboratively, by Arab and Turkophone actors alike.Drawing on a range of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, Empire of Salons illustrates the extent to which magnificent gatherings of Ottoman gentlemen contributed to the culture and governance of empire.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati • Abu Nuwas • Ahmad • al-Suyuti • Al-Tirmidhi • Al-Zamakhshari • arabic • arabs • Avicenna • Baths of Caracalla • Bayezid II • Biographical dictionary • Book of Judges • Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani • Byzantine Empire • Calligraphy • classical arabic • coffeehouse • Constantinople • Cosmopolitanism • declamation • Disputation • Divan • Epigram • erudition • Etiquette • Exegesis • Fatih • FISC • George Clooney • Global City • Gog and Magog • Grandee • Grand Vizier • Hadith • Hadith studies • Hafez • hanafi • Hassan ibn Thabit • Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani • Ibn Khallikan • Ibn Malik • Ibn Qutaybah • imperialism • Islam • Islamic culture • Jack Nicholson • Jews • Katib • Khutbah • Literature • madrasa • Majlis • Mamluk • Masdar City • Middle East • Mihrab • Millet (Ottoman Empire) • Mosque • Mufti • Muhammad • Muhammad al-Bukhari • Murad III • Muslim • Muslim world • New Laws • On the Eve • Orientalism • Ottoman dynasty • Ottoman Empire • Paganism • Poetry • praetor • qadi • Religion • Republic of Letters • Robert de Niro • Rumi • sayyid • Selim II • Shahab Ahmed • Sharia • Sheikh • Siege of Baghdad (1258) • six acts • State-Building • Suetonius • Sufism • Sunni Islam • Superiority (short story) • Taftazani • Technology • Tezkire • the new science • The Other Hand • Timur • Urban renewal • Vizier • warfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22495-1 / 0691224951
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22495-4 / 9780691224954