Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans

Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece

Carter Vaughn Findley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-36312-0 (ISBN)

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D’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman is the most authoritative, magnificently illustrated work of the Enlightenment on Islam and the Ottomans. A practical work for statesmen, the Tableau delighted all readers with profuse illustrations -- verbal and visual -- of Ottoman life.

Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman offered the Enlightenment Republic of Letters its most authoritative work on Islam and the Ottomans, also a practical reference work for kings and statesmen. Profusely illustrated and opening deep insights into illustrated book production in this period, this is also the century’s richest collection of visual documentation on the Ottomans. Shaped by the author’s personal struggles, the work yet commands recognition in its own totality as a monument to intercultural understanding. In form one of the great taxonomic works of Enlightenment thought, this is a work of advocacy in the cause of reform and amity among France, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire.

Carter Vaughn Findley, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1969), Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, is the author of Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History (2010), The Turks in World History (2005), and two books on Ottoman administrative reform.

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Acknowledgments

Note on Usage

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Photo Credits

1 Introduction: D’Ohsson’s Ottoman-French-Swedish Triangle

2 Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Life and World, Through the Paris Years

3 Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Life and World, The Later Years

4 Illustrating and Publishing: Process and Politics

5 D’Ohsson’s Tableau in Totality

6 Explaining Islam: Beliefs, Rituals, Ethics

7 Illustrating Islam: Beliefs, Rituals, Ethics

8 Explaining Islam: Elites, Movements, Applications

9 Illustrating Islam: Elites, Movements, Applications

10 Explaining the State: Structure and Function

11 Illustrating the State: Structure and Function

12 Arguments, Audiences, Receptions

Glossary showing examples of d’Ohsson’s usage

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	The History of Oriental Studies ; 5
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch; Turkish, Ottoman
Maße	210 x 270 mm
Gewicht	1586 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	90-04-36312-2 / 9004363122
ISBN-13	978-90-04-36312-0 / 9789004363120
Zustand	Neuware