The Ottoman Empire
~ T HE O TTOMAN E MPIRE ~ AND THE W ORLD A ROUND I T
~ For Virginia Aksan in friendship ~
~ The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
~ S URAIYA F AROQHI ~
Published in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © Suraiya Faroqhi 2004 The right of Suraiya Faroqhi to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The Library of Ottoman Studies 7 ISBN 1 85043 715 7 EAN 978 1 85043 715 4 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset in Times by JCS Publishing Services Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin
~ Table of contents
List of illustrations A note on transliteration and dates Acknowledgements Map of the Ottoman Empire in Asia and Africa Map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe 1 ~ Introduction
Islamic law and sultanic pragmatism: 2 ~ Determining the parameters of Ottoman ‘foreign policy’: some general considerations: 4 ~ A few ground rules of Ottoman ‘foreign politics’: 6 ~ Validity and limits of the ‘warfare state’ model: 8 ~ Accommodation, both open and unacknowledged, and the problem of structural similarities in the early modern world: 10 ~ An impossible balance between ‘east’ and ‘west’?: 11 ~ Who, in which period, formed part of the Ottoman elite?:
~ For Virginia Aksan in friendship ~
~ The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
~ S URAIYA F AROQHI ~
Published in 2004 by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © Suraiya Faroqhi 2004 The right of Suraiya Faroqhi to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The Library of Ottoman Studies 7 ISBN 1 85043 715 7 EAN 978 1 85043 715 4 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset in Times by JCS Publishing Services Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin
~ Table of contents
List of illustrations A note on transliteration and dates Acknowledgements Map of the Ottoman Empire in Asia and Africa Map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe 1 ~ Introduction
Islamic law and sultanic pragmatism: 2 ~ Determining the parameters of Ottoman ‘foreign policy’: some general considerations: 4 ~ A few ground rules of Ottoman ‘foreign politics’: 6 ~ Validity and limits of the ‘warfare state’ model: 8 ~ Accommodation, both open and unacknowledged, and the problem of structural similarities in the early modern world: 10 ~ An impossible balance between ‘east’ and ‘west’?: 11 ~ Who, in which period, formed part of the Ottoman elite?: