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Empire of Salons : Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer (2022, Hardcover)

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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Pfeifer, Helen [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691195234

ISBN-139780691195230

eBay Product ID (ePID)24050069544

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEmpire of Salons : Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Publication Year2022

SubjectEurope / Eastern, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Social History, Modern / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorHelen Pfeifer

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight24.3 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2021-032758

Reviews"This book . . . offers a focused perspective on an institution that, until this time, has been well-known but has not seen a dedicated work that outlines and explains it to this standard." ---Gemma Masson, World History Encyclopedia, "Pfeifer's painstaking analysis of the personalities and careers of her protagonists brings to life the power brokers, the holy men and the social climbers. . . . Backed up by a persuasive bibliography of published and unpublished sources, Empire of Salons presents a definitive picture of this age." ---David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books, "Helen Pfeifer has gifted Ottoman Studies with an excellent book on a largely understudied aspect of Ottoman intellectual, social, political and imperial history." ---Christian Mauder, Kadim

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal956.015

SynopsisA history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In Empire of Salons , Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer demonstrates that salons--exclusive assemblies in which elite men displayed their knowledge and status--contributed as much as any formal institution to the empire's political stability. These key laboratories of Ottoman culture, society, and politics helped men to build relationships and exchange ideas across the far-flung Ottoman lands. Pfeifer shows that salons played a central role in Syria and Egypt's integration into the empire after the conquest of 1516-17. Pfeifer anchors her narrative in the life and network of the star scholar of sixteenth-century Damascus, Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi (d. 1577), and she reveals that Arab elites were more influential within the empire than previously recognized. Their local knowledge and scholarly expertise competed with, and occasionally even outshone, that of the most powerful officials from Istanbul. Ultimately, Ottoman culture of the era was forged collaboratively, by Arab and Turkophone actors alike. Drawing on a range of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, Empire of Salons illustrates the extent to which magnificent gatherings of Ottoman gentlemen contributed to the culture and governance of empire.

LC Classification NumberDR486.P44 2021