Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman : Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World /
"On a torrid August day in 2009, I visited Celalzade Mustafa's final resting place in Istanbul's Eyüp district, in a neighborhood called Nisanca. The chancellor (nisanci) is buried in the cemetery adjoining the small mosque built for him by Sinan, the chief imperial architect. His br...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=508323 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Revisiting Celalzade Mustafa
- Part One. Celalzade Mustafa and the New Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Eurasia
- The Formative Years (1490-1523)
- The Secretary's Progress (1523-1534)
- The Empire and Its Chancellor (1534-1553)
- Towards the End (1553-1567)
- Part Two. Narrating, Imagining, and Managing the Empire
- Narrating the Empire : History-Writing between Imperial Advocacy and Personal Testimony
- Imagining the Empire : The Sultan, the Realm, the Enemies
- Managing the Empire : Institutionalization and Bureaucratic Consciousness
- Conclusion: Beyond Ottoman and European exceptionalism: empire and power in sixteenth-century Eurasia.