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by Heath W. Lowry


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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. The 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.

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  • Title The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
  • Author Heath W. Lowry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date February 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780791456361 / 0791456366
  • Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.92 x 0.39 in (23.06 x 15.04 x 0.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Turkey - Civilization, Turkey - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002042648
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.015

About the author

Heath W. Lowry is Atatrk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University and the author of Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
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