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- catalog abstract ""Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12721647.
- catalog coverage "Turkey Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "Turkey History.".
- catalog coverage "Turkey Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.".
- catalog description "Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "The Debate to Date -- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's iskendername -- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription -- What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans? -- Toward A New Explanation -- Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism-The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite -- The Nature of the Early Ottoman State.".
- catalog extent "ix, 197 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0791456358 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791456366 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey History.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "956/.015 21".
- catalog subject "DR432 .L69 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Debate to Date -- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's iskendername -- Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription -- What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans? -- Toward A New Explanation -- Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism-The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite -- The Nature of the Early Ottoman State.".
- catalog title "The nature of the early Ottoman state / Heath W. Lowry.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".