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Hardcover The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses Book

ISBN: 1503603563

ISBN13: 9781503603561

The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses

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...

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