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Title: Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition (Phoenix Book) by Norman Itzkowitz ISBN: 0-226-38806-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very brief and easy read: Worth it.
Comment: A small book, one volume in a larger series of studies of world civilazations published by Alfred A. Knopf. The book is sadly short and very brief; nevertheless, it is a helpful, clearly conveyed essay on the inner-workings of the Ottoman Empire, touching on its roots in Islamic traditions of government.
This book is not helpful as a history: it runs through, in very general terms, the history of the Ottoman Empire only for a background understanding of what was happening on the broader scope. This book is for those that know the history pretty well and want a definite understanding of the government hierarchy, the workings of the ulema, and the meaning of the ghazi tradition.
Norman Itzkowitz is a great scholar, and this study details perfectly how the Ottoman's owed their initial success to Islamic traditions, but also owed its subsequent stagnation and decay to the inherent reactionary elements of Islam.
Well worth the read: unfortunately, the book covers only up to the reign of Selim III (the Inspired), and thus stops right before the reform era. This is understandable, since such an addition would probably entail doubling the size of the book; still, without a look into the last, turbulent century of the Ottomans, it feels incomplete.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple Introduction to Ottoman Civilization
Comment: This is a concise study of Ottoman culture, society and the Ottoman administrative system. The Ottoman Empire, which lasted for 700 years and included three continents, is an important but often excluded ingredient in world history. This empire should be seen like its shorter lived sister-states (Mughal India and Safavid Iran) as a descendent of the Turco-Mongol steppe tradition under which Central Asia was unified and which created the first modern, large-scale, integrated, long-distance, old-world trading system.
The book begins with several brief chapters that outline Ottoman political history while the remaninder of the book provides an overvew of Ottoman institutions.
The volume, which includes a map, chronology, glossary, and index, is very easy reading. It could be used as part of a case study comparing the Ottoman Empire with other imperial systems. A must read for anyone interested in history who has never ventured beyond Western Europe or Russia while in their armchair. This book will provide a very different perspective on European political/diplomatic history.
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Title: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power by Colin Imber ISBN: 0333613864 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Islam,: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito ISBN: 0195112342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland ISBN: 0813334896 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $51.00 |
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Title: Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross ISBN: 0688080936 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Islamic World by William McNeill, Marilyn R. Waldman ISBN: 0226561550 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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