The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses - Rilegato

Ferguson, Heather L.

 
9781503603561: The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 1503603563 ISBN 13: 9781503603561
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2018

Sinossi

The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals.

The Proper Order of Things offers the story of an empire, at once familiar and strange, told through the shifting written vocabularies of power deployed by the Ottomans in their quest to thrive within a competitive early modern environment. Ferguson transcends the question of what these documents said, revealing instead how their formulation of the "proper order of things" configured the state itself. Through this textual authority, she argues, Ottoman writers ensured the durability of their empire, creating the principles of organization on which Ottoman statecraft and authority came to rest.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Heather L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Middle East and Ottoman History at Claremont McKenna College. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies.

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Editore
Stanford Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1503603563
ISBN 13 
9781503603561
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
426
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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