PROVINCIAL ELITES IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Παρουσίαση

Provincial elites were an important factor in the life of the Ottoman Empire in many respects: as local leadership, as political figures mediating between the central state and its provinces, as tax-farmers and entrepreneurs, as role models for their peers. There is a wide variety of people who may be regarded as belonging to the Ottoman provincial elites, because of both the extensive territory occupied by the Empire and its longevity. Eighteen contributions published in this volume discuss several aspects of Ottoman provincial elites, both Muslim and non-Muslim. Among the topics covered are the composition and characteristics of the elite, elite culture, patronage, and wealth and power bases, relations of elite figures with the state authorities and other members of the elite, and elite mobility over an extensive period of time ranging from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

PART ONE: ASPECTS OF ELITE IDENTITY AND CULTURE
GYORGY HAZAI, La langue turque dans les provinces de l'Empire ottoman et l'attitude des elites locales envers celle-ci : Le cas de la Hongrie
NICOLAS VATIN, Apercu sur la mobilite des elites ottomanes musulmanes locales d'apres les steles funeraires
JANE HATHAWAY, Bilateral factionalism in the Ottoman Provinces
HULYA CANBAKAL, On the 'Nobility' of Provincial Notables
ALEKSANDAR FOTIC, Belgrade: A Muslim and Non-Muslim Cultural Centre (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
PINELOPI STATHI, Provincial Bishops of the Orthodox Church as Members of the Ottoman Elite (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)
PART TWO: PROVINCIAL ELITES IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES
MELEK DELILBASI, Christian Sipahis in the Tirhala Taxation Registers (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)
LESLIE PEIRCE, Entrepreneurial Success in Sixteenth-Century Ayntab: The Case of Seydi Ahmed Boyaci, Local Notable
PART THREE: THE CONSOLIDATION AND HEYDAY OF OTTOMAN PROVINCIAL ELITES
ELENI GARA, Moneylenders and Landowners: in Search of Urban Muslim Elites in the Early Modern Balkans
ROSSITSA GRADEVA, Towards a Portrait of 'the Rich' in Ottoman Provincial Society: Sofia in the 1670s
SVETLANA IVANOVA, Varos: The Elites of the Reaya in the Towns of Rumeli, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries
MICHAEL URSINUS, The ciftlik Sahibleri of Manastir as a Local Elite, Late Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Century
ANTONIS ANASTASOPOULOS, The Mixed Elite of a Balkan Town: Karaferye in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
YUZO NAGATA, Ayan in Anatolia and the Balkans During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Case Study of the Karaosmanoglu Family
SURAIYA FAROQHI, Exporting Grain from the Anatolian South-West: The Power and Wealth of Tekelioglu Mehmed Aga and his Magnate Household
FILIZ YENISEHIRLIOGLOU, Architectural Patronage of Ayan Families in Anatolia
PART FOUR: PROVINCIAL ELITES IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD
EMILIE THEMOPOULOU, Les elites urbaines a l'epoque du tanzimat : le cas de Salonique
MARTIN STROHMEIER, Abd al-Rahman Pasha al-Yusuf, a Notable in Damascus (1873/74-1920)