TY  - GEN
T1  - The nature of the early Ottoman state
T2  - SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
A1  - Lowry, Heath W., 1942-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocm55896257
AB  - Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.
OP  - 197
CN  - DR432 .L69 2003eb
SN  - 1417524073
SN  - 9781417524075
SN  - 0791456358
SN  - 9780791456354
SN  - 0791456366
SN  - 9780791456361
SN  - 9780791487266
SN  - 0791487261
KW  - Turkey : Civilization.
KW  - Turkey : Social conditions.
KW  - Turkey : History.
KW  - Turquie : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Turquie : Histoire.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
ER  -