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Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty - Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
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Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty - Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
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Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And
if so, what were the core principles that governed the dynasty over
its 600 year lifespan? Following the death of the dynasty's
eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne.
Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and
personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and
eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an
alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as
reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of
the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850
each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the
state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities,
based around the palace and court culture and rituals of
sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central
state administrative apparatus.Sovereignty was attached to the
person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for
prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period
between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne
(Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a
preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the
Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and
modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman
kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the
Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing
complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and
imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn
engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of
kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.
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