num_pages: 184
description: With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.
language: English
title: Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
titlecomplete: Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
genres: History
ratings_count: 62
series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
publisher: Syracuse University Press