
Linda T. Darling- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at University of Arizona
Linda T. Darling
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at University of Arizona
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Provincial-central fiscal relations in the Ottoman Empire
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Ottoman kanun plays an important role in shaping perceptions of the Ottoman state, the sultan's authority, and the empire's unique combination of Islam and secularity. Much ink has been spilled on the subject of kanun, but there is still considerable confusion in the scholarship. This article provides a roadmap through publications on kanun and kan...
The articles written by friends, colleagues, former students, and one current doctoral student collected in this celebratory volume dedicated to the doyen of Ottoman studies in Croatia, Professor Nenad Moačanin, are divided into three main chapters entitled “Ottoman Bosnia, Turkish Croatia, and Turkey in Europe,” “Distant Borders and Regions,” and...
This article aims to develop a new narrative of changes in the Ottoman timar system independent of the complaints of decline brought by advice writers like Mustafa 'Ali. Based on the icmal defterleri, it examines the identities of timar-holders and their changes over time, a topic generally ignored in descriptions of the Ottoman military. Using dat...
Richard L. Chambers was a professor of Turkish language and history at the University of Chicago. Finding material for this essay on his life was extraordinarily difficult; for a long time it was impossible even to find a copy of his CV. He never published his own book, that advertisement for scholarship that is characteristic of academics. There i...
Richard L. Chambers was born on 27 September 1929 in Brundidge, Alabama, and died on 1 August 2016 in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama, studying diplomatic and Middle Eastern history and gaining a B.A. in 1950. He obtained a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a fellowship at the Ludwig Maximilian Univer...
Halil İnalcık was born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, into a refugee family, probably in 1916 (he did not know his birthday; in Turkey he adopted 29 May, in the US 4 July). He died at age 100 in Ankara on 25 July 2016, as the premier Ottoman historian in the world. To quote one of his students, “Professor İnalcık transformed the fi...
The Ottoman Empire, contrary to the stereotype, was a key player in global commerce until well into the nineteenth century. Customs registers (
gümrük defterleri
) compiled by the Ottoman administration provide abundant information on ships, seamen, merchants, goods, and prices. This article summarizes the history of Ottoman customs taxation, enume...
This paper is an addendum to my article on the timar system in a previous issue of this journal, carrying the story into the seventeenth century and adding data on the sixteenth century that was not in the previous article. It considers the question of timars not listed in the provincial registers, employing the icmal defterleri to determine how ma...
The Islamic historical narrative indicates a sharp break between the "age of ignorance" (jahiliyya) and the age of Islam that extends beyond religion and ethics to politics and culture. This article contributes to the scholarly effort to refute that break by examining an aspect of continuity in political thought, the Circle of Justice, a shorthand...
What happened to the Ottoman Empire when a capital-based, palace-educated political elite was replaced by a peripheral, provincial elite? The sky fell and the empire declined, according to writers from the central elite. My paper challenges this construction of the century after 1550 by reinterpreting its major literary support, the literature of a...
A useful paradigm for studying Mediterranean and world history is the concept behind a course I teach, “The Mediterranean as a Borderland.” The paradigm of the borderland was generated by policymakers and social scientists studying the American Southwest and developed for the field of history by Oscar Martinez at the University of Arizona. Arizona...
The written Persian language is remarkable for its stability over a millennium of time. In contrast, the interesting thing about Ottoman written culture is that although Ottoman Turkish was intimately linked with Persian throughout its existence, although Ottoman scribes based their organization and culture on that of Persian scribes, and although...
The political transformation to the early modern state occurred around 1500 not only in Europe but also in the Middle East. This transformation was marked in the Middle East by a political discourse about justice that emerged in several polities, contemporary with a similar discourse taking place in Europe. The concern for political justice, expres...
middle east;muslim spain;central asia;urbanization;entertainment
The historian Ibn Khaldun (d. 1405), in his Muqaddimah (Introduction to history), explained historical change and the succession of dynasties as a function of the interactions between nomadic culture and urban civilization. His major contribution is usually considered to be his analysis of the correlation between ‘asabiyya, social cohesion or group...
In the post-classical period, the Ottoman central finance department’s primary role changed from supplying the household of the sultan to paying the military forces. The transformation of the army from a force of mounted bowmen with tax assignments (timars) to one of foot-soldiers with firearms moved the major burden of military support from the in...
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 22.1-2 (2002) 3-19
The Islamic literary genre of advice to kings, or "mirrors for princes," as scholars increasingly realize, was not just the self-referential pastime of a frustrated scribal class but an influential expression of values widely held by ruling groups and populations in th...
Le present article donne un apercu de quelques directions dans lesquelles pourrait s'etendre la contextualisation de la «guerre sainte» («ghazâ») ottomane et propose une meilleure formulation de la question : il definit l'etat ottoman comme un produit de contestation parmi des groupes avec des programmes differents et differents concepts de la pert...
Our image of early modern Europe is one of religious wars, intellectual and scientific discoveries, and global explorations that "circumvented" the Islamic world and left it behind in the dust of progress. The Islamic world in the same period is pictured as stagnant and declining, unable or unwilling to adopt technologies or profit from discoveries...
Abou-El-HajRifaʿat ʿAli, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1991). Pp. 172. - Volume 25 Issue 1 - Linda T. Darling
The political transformation to the early modern state occurred around 1500 not only in Europe but also in the Middle East. This transformation was marked in the Middle East by a political discourse about justice that emerged in several polities, contemporary with a similar discourse taking place in Europe. The concern for political justice, expres...