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Title: Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State by Cemal Kafadar ISBN: 0-520-20600-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Sophisticated Book
Comment: Reading this book I think requires some background in the process of Islamization of Anatolia by the Turks and some speacial interest. If you like Vryonis'd books you will like this too. The book questions some thesis toward the construction of the Ottoman Empire in the late 13th century. Kafadar analyzes historians like Wittek, Gibbon, and Koprulu's thesis first, then criticizes them. The basic arguments he discusses are whether the Ottomans had always had Gazi spirit in their war against Christendom, whether they were pagan Turks or not, the competition between Gazi-Dervish soldiers and the central state. The book is analytic and presents very interesting facts or possibilites. Some of these are the real name (or the second name) of Osman, the founder of the empire was Ataman. Another piece of knowledge is the participation of some Byzantine soldiers into Osman's troops. Another one is the Christian-Muslim cooperative revolt against the Ottomans in the 14th century which is well-known in Turkey as Seyh Bedreddin Revolt. It is worth reading if you are interested in the history of Islamization of Anatolia.
Rating: 5
Summary: Out of this world
Comment: Reading Kafadar's book is not only reading a history of the Ottoman Empire, but it is remembering the complexity of history. Kafadar's book analyses the forces at play, their effects, and their results on the creation of the Ottoman Empire. The questions Kafadar asks in this book are not only very important to uncover the often misunderstood beginnings of the Ottoman's; but it also addresses "the myths of creation" about the Ottoman Empire, which were to serve political purposes. Last but not least Kafadar's style is very powerful and capable of working on such a problematic period and yet make the reader flow through his arguments so easily. I can recommend this book to all interested in the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and generally in great historical analysis, do not shy away from it because it is not a popular historical account.
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Title: The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History) by Donald Quataert ISBN: 0521633605 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East (Paperback)) by Heath W. Lowry ISBN: 0791456366 Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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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: The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, 24) by Daniel Goffman ISBN: 0521459087 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (Historical Endings) by Justin McCarthy ISBN: 0340706570 Publisher: Arnold Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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