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Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
by Fleischer, Cornell H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691054649
- ISBN 13
- 9780691054643
- Seller
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About This Item
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xviii, 364 pages, 24 pages of b/w plates, map, two appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Name and date by the upper corner of the half-title page. Three-line note in Hungarian beneath the title on the title page. Cloth boards, with a few small spots on the front board, spine title label, in dust-jacket. From the blurb, this study 'uses Ali and his works as the basis for analyzing the nature of intellectual and social life in a formative period of the Ottoman Empire. Part I reconstructs Ali's biography and examines the social and cultural context of his vision of the Ottoman historical experience. Part II studies the character and development of the bureaucracy and also treats the dynastic law codes by which Ottoman offiials lived. Part III focuses on primary facets of Ali's historical vision and method'. IN the series Princeton Studies on the Near East.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023536
- Title
- Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
- Author
- Fleischer, Cornell H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0691054649
- ISBN 13
- 9780691054643
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Historians Turkey Biography Turkey Politics Government Officials Employees Classical Ottoman History Medieval Islamic Political Thought History Eastern Central Europe Early Modern Times Princeton Studies on the Near East
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; Biography;
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