Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities, based around the palace and court culture and rituals of sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central state administrative apparatus. Sovereignty was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.

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Rhoads Murphey

Inhalt
maps, dynastic, genealogical and chronological charts
Introduction

Chapter One - Dynastic Origins: Medieval Inheritances and

Major Influences on Ottoman Concepts of Sovereignty


Chapter Two -- Dynastic Identity: Ottoman Political Values and

the Quest for an Imperial Identity in the Proto-imperial Era,

1300-1450


Chapter Three -- Dynastic Image: An Investigation of the

Ottoman's Use of Titulature in Coins and Chancellery

Documents


Chapter Four -- The Dynasty as Family Enterprise: Sibling

Rivalry, Struggles for Succession to the Throne and incipient

creation of the 'political household'


Chapter Five: Consolidation of the Political Household in the

Immediate Post Accession Phase of Rule


Chapter Six - Formation of the Wider Palace Household: A

people-centered glimpse at the institution of the sultanate and

an account of the composition, growth and development of the

imperial administrative corps, ca. 1470 to ca. 1670


Chapter Seven -- Celebrating the Coming of Age of an

Ottoman Prince : Exclusivity versus Inclusiveness in Ottoman

Court Ceremonial


Chapter Eight -- Ottoman Sovereignty in Motion: Developing the

Means Through Ceremony and Ritual and for Projecting the

Sultan's Power and Authority Beyond the Confines of the Palace

Precincts


Chapter Nine -- The Art of Communication: Foundations of

Ottoman Bureaucratic Efficiency in the High Imperial Era


Conclusion

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