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Author Ferguson, Heather L., author.

Title The proper order of things : language, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses / Heather L. Ferguson.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the structure of empire and a grammar of rule -- The sovereign state : spatial and textual politics in early modern Eurasian courts -- The state of stability : the kanunname as a genre of administrative governance -- The bureaucratic state : reforming documentary practices -- The brokered state : "the past is no longer the present" in the "land between the rivers" -- A state of rebellion : the re-territorialization of Ottoman sovereignty in greater Syria -- On the perfect state : an Ottoman vision of order -- Conclusion : the archiving state.
Summary The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals. The Proper Order of Things offers the story of an empire, at once familiar and strange, told through the shifting written vocabularies of power deployed by the Ottomans in their quest to thrive within a competitive early modern environment. Ferguson transcends the question of what these documents said, revealing instead how their formulation of the "proper order of things" configured the state itself. Through this textual authority, she argues, Ottoman writers ensured the durability of their empire, creating the principles of organization on which Ottoman statecraft and authority came to rest. -- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- History.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.
Turkey.
History.
Discourse analysis.
Order -- Political aspects -- Turkey -- History.
Order.
Administrative law -- Turkey -- History.
Administrative law.
Turkey -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Imperialism.
Imperialism.
Chronological Term 1288-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ferguson, Heather L. Proper order of things : language, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 441 pages 9781503603561 (DLC) 2017050465
ISBN 9781503605534 (electronic book)
1503605531 (electronic book)
9781503603561
1503603563