An Ottoman Tragedy

History and Historiography at Play

By: Gabriel Piterberg

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Hardcover | 4 September 2003 | Edition Number 1

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In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma--the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start--that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax "an Ottoman Tragedy." Under Gabriel Piterberg's deft analysis, this period of crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century--an opportunity to observe the dialectical play between history as an occurrence and experience and history as a recounting of that experience.
Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman narration of this fraught period from the foundational text, produced in the early 1620s, to the composition of the state narrative at the end of the seventeenth century. His work brings theories of historiography into dialogue with the actual interpretation of Ottoman historical texts, and forces a rethinking of both Ottoman historiography and the Ottoman state in the seventeenth century. A provocative reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history, this work reconceives the relation between historiography and history.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
A Note on Transliteration	p. xv
Introduction: The Content and Form of This Study	p. 1
Foundations
The Plot	p. 9
The Formation and Study of Ottoman Historiography	p. 30
An Interpretive Framework	p. 50
Historiography
Tugi's Representation of the Haile-i Osmaniye: The Perspective of the Imperial Army	p. 71
The Formation of Alternative Narratives: Hasanbeyzade and Pecevi	p. 91
The Conception of the State Narrative	p. 114
The State
The Early Modern Ottoman State: History and Theory	p. 135
The Ottoman State as a Discursively Contested Field	p. 163
Epilogue: Poetics of Ottoman Historiography: Preliminary Notes	p. 185
Glossary	p. 201
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 243
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