Legitimizing the order
Subtitle: the Ottoman rhetoric of state power
By: edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Description: "The three sections of this book, The Well-Founded Order, Religiosity and Orthodoxy and The Crisis of Ottoman Legitimacy revolve around the issue how the sultan and the Ottoman ruling class sought to inculcate their understanding of authority into the Ottoman population. Besides notions such as good government, justice and divine right, the practical achievement of order and tranquillity was the hallmark of a successful Ottoman ruler. The last section of the book turns to the question how Ottoman notions of legitimacy - especially in the 18th and 19th centuries - were exposed to criticism or how they were disrupted in crisis situations."--Jacket.