Introducing the Ottoman Empire

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2016

Yayıncı:

Cambridge University Press

It can be argued that from the second half of the fifteenth century through the early sixteenth, changes in governance and ideology transformed the Ottoman polity from a post-Mongol Turkmen principality into an early modern empire. In the face of the growing importance of gunpowder and a standing army of janissaries, nomadic warriors lost much of their strength. The distinguished position of the Ottoman family, especially the Ottoman sultan, became articulated. Aristocratic Turkish families became excluded from the top administrative posts. In the meantime, the bureaucratic state formation took on momentum. Viziers and commanders of slave or non-Muslim origin undertook governmental responsibilities and managed a growing bureaucracy of military and civil officials in the name of the sultan. In conjunction with all of these developments, the heads of the Ottoman political enterprise deemphasized the post-Mongol means of gaining legitimacy and power and adopted a universalist imperial ideology to project their status, power, and ambitions.

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