The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
2004
ISBN: 1-85043-715-7
Pages: 304
Format: pdf
Size: 15 mb
Language: English
Quality: excellent

Islamic law and sultanic pragmatism: 2 Determining the parameters of
Ottoman ‘foreign policy’: some general considerations: 4 A few ground
rules of Ottoman ‘foreign politics’: 6 Validity and limits of the ‘warfare
state’ model: 8 Accommodation, both open and unacknowledged, and the
problem of structural similarities in the early modern world: 10 An
impossible balance between ‘east’ and ‘west’?: 11 Who, in which period,
formed part of the Ottoman elite?: 13 The Ottoman Empire as a world
economy: 14 The abiding centrality of Istanbul: 16 Confronting our
limits: problems of documentation: 18 ‘Placing’ our topic in geographical
terms: 20 ‘Placing’ our topic in time: 21 Confronting different
perspectives, or how to justify comparisons: 23 A common world...