IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012

OTTOMAN STATE AND ITS CIVILISATIONHISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN STATE,SOCIETY & CIVILISATIONThis collective work is a comprehensive survey which coversthe six hundred year-old history of the Ottoman state andcivilisation from the formation of the Ottoman principalityuntil the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.Volume One comprises articles titled “From the Founding toKüçük Kaynarca”, “From Küçük Kaynarca to the Collapse”,“Ottoman State Organization”, “Administrative Organizationduring the Tanzimat Period”, “Ottoman MilitaryEstablishment”, “The Ottoman Legal System”, “OttomanSociety”, “The Structure of the Ottoman Economy”.Volume Two includes articles titled “Ottoman TurkishLanguage”, “Turkish Literature in Anatolia”, “TurkishLiterature during the Period of Westernization”, “AnExploration into Intellectual Life during the Period ofWesternization”, “The Literature of Muslim Peoples inEurope during the Ottoman Period”, “Aspects of IntellectualLife in the Arab Provinces during the Ottoman Period”,“Ottoman Educational and Scholarly-Scientific Institutions”,“The Ottoman Scientific-Scholarly Literature”, “Art andArchitecture”, “The Art of Calligraphy in the OttomanEmpire”, “The Art of Illumination in the Ottoman Empire”.This book is a product of the large-scale research project ofIRCICA titled “History of Muslim Nations”. It aims to givean objective account of the history of the Ottoman state andcivilisation on the basis of the Ottoman archival sources,84 IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012