The ottomans disolving images
The Ottoman Empire was a "mystery wrapped inside the enigma". This book aims to unravel the mystery in two ways. Firstly, it looks at the Ottomans and their world in terms relevant to an eastern Islamic society, with its own principles and practices that seemed merely barbaric to the West....
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London, UK
Penguin Books
1995
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Table of Contents:
- The world's last day: the fall of the Byzantine Empire
- At the gate of bliss: the shaping of Ottoman power
- Strangled with a silken cord: the constraints of Ottomanism
- 'The auspicious event': the extirpation of the janissaries
- Stamboul, the city: western image of the Ottomans
- Dreams from the Rose PavilionL: the meandering path of reform
- 'The lustful Turk'
- 'The terrible Turk'