Ethnic-Regional ( Cins ) Solidarity in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Establishment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8965352
AutoresMetin Kunt (autor de correspondencia), Metin Ibrahim Kunt
Año1974
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas233-239
Fecha de publicación1974-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800034917
OpenAlexW2137559781
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas4

Similar to many previous and contemporary Islamic states, the basis of classical Ottoman administration and military was a highly elaborate system of slavery. Slaves, carefully recruited and educated, made up the bulk of the central army and filled many of the administrative posts of the empire. To the traditional sources of slaves the Ottomans added a new one: the levy of children from non- urban, mostly Christian subjects of the empire ( devşirme ). The motive behind this elaborate system of ‘slaves of the sultan’ is obvious: to provide the sultan and the central government with an efficient, well-trained and loyal professional army. The basis of the loyalty was that theoretically they were without root and without ties

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