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100 1 $aLowry, Heath W.,$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85261259
245 14 $aThe nature of the early Ottoman state /$cHeath W. Lowry.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c2003.
300 $aix, 197 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Debate to Date -- $g2.$tWittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername -- $g3.$tWittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription -- $g4.$tWhat Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans? -- $g5.$tToward A New Explanation -- $g6.$tChristian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- $g7.$tThe Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism - The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite -- $g8.$tThe Nature of the Early Ottoman State.
520 1 $a"Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves.
520 8 $aThe early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aTurkey$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138786
651 0 $aTurkey$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138850
651 0 $aTurkey$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138799
830 0 $aSUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90672405
852 00 $bglx$hDR432$i.L69 2003