The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
Heather L. Ferguson, "The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses"
English | ISBN: 1503603563 | 2018 | 440 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1503603563 | 2018 | 440 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals.
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