Title: The rise of the Ottoman Empire : studies in the history of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth centuries /
Authors: Wittek, Paul, 1894-1978.; Heywood, Colin; Lindner, Rudi Paul.; Welsh, Oliver.; Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: HISTORY / Asia / General.; HISTORY / Middle East / General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.; Turkey History
Abstract: "Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 [lectures delivered at the University of London on May 4th, 5th and 6th, 1937] and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and the reign of Mehmed II. Most of these pieces reproduces the texts of lectures or conference papers delivered by Wittek between 1936 and 1938 when he was teaching at Université Libré in Brussels, Belgium. The books or journals in which they were originally published are for the most part inaccessible except in specialist libraries, in a period when Wittek's activities as an Ottoman historian, in particular his formulations regarding the origins and subsequent history of the Ottoman state [the 'ghazi thesis'], are coming under increasing study within the Anglo-Saxon world of scholarship. An introduction by Colin Heywood sets Wittek's work in its historical and historiographical context for the benefit of those students who were not privileged to experience it firsthand. This reissue and recontextualizing of Wittek’s pioneering work on early Ottoman history makes a valuable contribution to the field and to the historiography of Asian and Middle Eastern history generally."--
Contents: Introduction : a critical essay / Colin Heywood -- I. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire [1937-38] -- II. The Sultan of Rûm [1938] -- III. Two Chapters in the History of Rûm [1935-36] -- IV. Two Conference Papers From Leiden (1936) -- V. From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople (A Half-Century of Ottoman History) [1938] -- VI. Two Essays on Mehmed II: 'Muhammed II' and 'Fath Mubîn' [1933; 1955].