Ali Yaycioglu. Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

Year 2017, Issue: 42, 154 - 159, 21.08.2017

Hümeyra Bostan

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.335625

Abstract

In Partners of the Empire, Ali Yaycıoğlu
provides an account of Ottoman crisis and reform efforts for a stable order during
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The central aim of the book
is to emphasize the active participation of provincial notables, the ayan, and their determining role in the processes of crisis and
reform. He investigates the provincial notables as important actors with their
leadership claims, economic potential and threats of rebellion and, the ways
the Ottoman government dealt with their power. Several studies have already attempted
to explore the role of local notables in the Ottoman Empire during the
eighteenth century; Partners of the
Empire is distinguished from these with its consideration of provincial
notables as “partners” of the Ottoman government.

Keywords

19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihi, Devrimler Çağı

References

• Ali Yaycioglu. Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016