The well-protected domains
Subtitle: ideology and the legitimation of power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909
By: Selim Deringil.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In the U.S.A. and in Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York; [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.; Legitimacy of governments -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century.; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1878-1909.
Description: <">The Ottoman Empire was the only great European Muslim power and was at one time the most serious threat to European Christendom. Yet, by the turn of the nineteenth century, it was a crumbling power that, paradoxically, retained a strong military force. The Well-Protected Domains examines this anomaly, showing how the late Ottoman state grappled with the challenges of the modernity then changing the world. Selim Deringil traces the Ottoman state's pursuit of egitimation in many spheres of public life: state ceremonial, the iconography of buildings, the honours system, the language of the chancery, the proto- nationalist reformulation of Islamic legal practices, the efforts to inculcate the idea of 'Ottoman citizenry' through an expanded education system and the efforts of the Ottoman elite to present a 'civilized' image abroad. Based on unexplored sources in the Ottoman archives, The Well-Protected Domains brings to life the Hamidian period and provides readers with a unique view of the workings of the late Ottoman Empire.<">--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.