Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World

Nedim Nomer is a professor of philosophy at Boğaziçi University. He received his doctorate in political theory from Columbia University in 2003. His work concentrates on the moral and political ideas of German Idealists, especially those of J. G. Fichte, and on the early twentieth century Turkish political thought. Some of his work appeared in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Forum, History of Political Thought, and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.Kaya Şahin is Professor of History and the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Global Strategies at the Ohio State University. After receiving his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2007, he taught at Northwestern, Tulane, and Indiana. He is the author of Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire (2013) and Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman (2022). He published articles on apocalypticism, bureaucracy, early modern Orientalism, cross-cultural encounters, and ceremonies and rituals. He is the editor of Ottomanica: Voices, Sources, Perspectives, a book series under Indiana University Press.

Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World is a wonderful resource which covers a diverse array of topics with the most up-to-date research in the field of Ottoman political and philosophical studies. It will surely be required reading for anyone serious about dissecting the Ottoman world and the casual reader will take away an appreciation of the complexity of Ottoman history made simple.

• 1: Hüseyin Y)ilmaz: Law and State in Ottoman Political Thought 2: Nedim Nomer, Kaya ,Sahin: Legitimizing the Sultanate: Political Thought and Government in the Reign of Süleyman (1520-1566) 3: Gottfried Hagen: Ottoman Sacred Kingship: Prophetic Relics and Political Ritual 4: Baki Tezcan: The Transformation of the Politics of Ethics from K)inal)izade to Birgivi:The Beginnings of Majoritarian Identity Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire 5: Abdurrahman Atç)il: Political Power and Lawmaking in The Ottoman Empire: ?Ulam?? and Sultans vis-à-vis Sharia 6: Asl)ihan Gürbüzel: <"Where There is Love, Justice is not Needed> ": Friendship and Civic Community in Early Modern Ottoman Thought 7: Linda T. Darling: Uncovering Political Thought in Ottoman Political Actors Who Did Not Write 8: Marinos Sariyannis: Utopian Elements in Ottoman Literature: Visions of the Future in Two Sixteenth-Century Texts 9: Hüseyin Ongan Arslan: The Qizilbash Alternative: Competing Claims to Religious and Political Legitimacy in the Early Modern Middle East 10: Orit Bashkin: Jewish Political Allegories and Ottoman Imperial Power 11: Ba,sak Tu&g: A Gendered History of Honor in the Ottoman Legal Praxis 12: Murat R. ,Sivilo&glu: Ottoman Liberalism during the Liberal Age 13: Melissa Bilal: Pavagan E (Enough!): Zabel Yesayan (1878-1943) on Peace, Justice, and People's Right to Self Defense 14: Cemil Ayd)in: Beyond Caliphate Internationalism: Ottoman Visions to Remake the Imperial World Order