First of the Modern Ottomans Menchinger Ethan L. University of Toronto
First of the Modern Ottomans Menchinger Ethan L. University of Toronto The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. In this book, Ethan L. While the Empire…
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First of the Modern Ottomans Menchinger Ethan L. University of Toronto
The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. In this book, Ethan L. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative reform, it also lost much of its influence on the European stage through war and revolt.
Vasıf's life reveals new aspects of Ottoman letters - heated debates over moral renewal, war and peace, justice, and free will - but it also forces the reappraisal of Ottoman political reform, showing a vital response that was deeply enmeshed in Islamic philosophy, ethics, and statecraft. Menchinger sheds light on intellectual life, politics, and reform in the Empire through the study of one of its leading intellectuals and statesmen, Ahmed Vasıf. Tracing Vasıf's role through the turn of the nineteenth century, this book opens the debate on modernity and intellectualism for those students and researchers
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