Book contents
- The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
- Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
- The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Usage
- Abbreviations
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 The Timurid Vocabulary of Sovereignty
- 5 The Canons of Conventional Histories
- 6 Ottoman Sovereignty on the Cusp of Universal Empire
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
5 - The Canons of Conventional Histories
from Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
- The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
- Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
- The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Usage
- Abbreviations
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 The Timurid Vocabulary of Sovereignty
- 5 The Canons of Conventional Histories
- 6 Ottoman Sovereignty on the Cusp of Universal Empire
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Despite the impact of his secretarial work and historical writings on the ideological dimensions of the Ottoman Sultanate in the early sixteenth century, Bidlisi’s legacy sits uncomfortably within the larger frameworks by which modern historians generally assess the development of a distinctly Ottoman tradition of historical writing. To be sure, Bidlisi’s status as a major voice of the dynasty in the reign of Bayezid II is universally affirmed by modern historians, yet his work as historian is all too often mentioned only in passing and with little consideration of precisely what he offered his contemporary readers and subsequent generations of Ottoman historians and litterateurs.
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- The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval IslamPersian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, pp. 192 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019