Baki Tezcan
Biographic Data
| ID | 709271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Baki Tezcan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Baki |
| FAMILY NAME | Tezcan |
| SIGNATURE | TEZCAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
President's Note
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occasional Zoom meeti…
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occasional Zoom meeti…
President’s Note
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan, OTSA President The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occas…
Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)
While he was still at graduate school, Abou-El-Haj started teaching at
Norman Itzkowitz (1931–2019)
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Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise
The Second Empire
This essay proposes a new framework to study the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by focusing on the transformation of Ottoman political structures in the seventeenth century. It offers a summary of Ottoman political history up to the sixteenth century, underlines the socioeconomic transformation of the late sixteenth century and its impact on politics, and argues that the rebellions and depositions of the…
The Ottoman Mevali as 'lords of the law
This article argues that in the late-sixteenth and the early-seventeenth centuries the high-ranking Ottoman judges and professors of law, the mevali (sing. mevla, lord), came to constitute a privileged social group, a nobility of sorts, whose members could pass on their social status to their sons. It discusses briefly the legitimizing and legal-administrative functions of the ulema, or scholar-jurists, which provided them with invaluable leverag…
Lost in Historiography
This article tackles the question of why an attempt to uncover an indigenous history of limited government in the early modern Ottoman Empire has not been undertaken in twentieth-century Turkish historiography despite the obvious existence of several constituents for such a history, such as the political power and prestige of jurists (ulema), the political role of the janissary corps, and the many depositions and other revolts that they staged in…
The Ottoman Monetary Crisis of 1585 Revisited
In 1585-8, the Ottoman silver currency, the akçe, was officially devalued by 100% against the Venetian gold ducat and foreign silver currencies, and its silver content was reduced by 44%. Some scholars have interpreted this devaluation and debasement as a consequence of the silver influx from the Americas, whereas others have referred to the difficulties that the Ottoman state had to face in financing its war effort against the Safavids in Persia…
"The history of a "primary source
A short chronicle by a former janissary called Tûghî on the regicide of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II in 1622 had a definitive impact on seventeenth-century Ottoman historiography in terms of the way in which this regicide was recounted. This study examines the formation of Tûghî's chronicle and shows how within the course of the year following the regicide, Tûghî's initial attitude, which recognized the collective responsibility of the military ca…
The Debut of Kösem Sultan's Political Career
Kosem Sultan (m. 1651) est connue pour son influence politique pendant les regnes de ses fils Murad IV (1623-40) et Ibrahim (1640-48). Cet article retrace le debut de sa carriere politique et suggere qu'elle eut un role important dans la politique de succession depuis les premiere annees du regne d'Ahmed I er (1603-17)
The Ottoman Mevali as 'lords of the law
This article argues that in the late-sixteenth and the early-seventeenth centuries the high-ranking Ottoman judges and professors of law, the mevali (sing. mevla, lord), came to constitute a privileged social group, a nobility of sorts, whose members could pass on their social status to their sons. It discusses briefly the legitimizing and legal-administrative functions of the ulema, or scholar-jurists, which provided them with invaluable leverag…
The Second Empire
This essay proposes a new framework to study the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by focusing on the transformation of Ottoman political structures in the seventeenth century. It offers a summary of Ottoman political history up to the sixteenth century, underlines the socioeconomic transformation of the late sixteenth century and its impact on politics, and argues that the rebellions and depositions of the…
Lost in Historiography
This article tackles the question of why an attempt to uncover an indigenous history of limited government in the early modern Ottoman Empire has not been undertaken in twentieth-century Turkish historiography despite the obvious existence of several constituents for such a history, such as the political power and prestige of jurists (ulema), the political role of the janissary corps, and the many depositions and other revolts that they staged in…
The Ottoman Monetary Crisis of 1585 Revisited
In 1585-8, the Ottoman silver currency, the akçe, was officially devalued by 100% against the Venetian gold ducat and foreign silver currencies, and its silver content was reduced by 44%. Some scholars have interpreted this devaluation and debasement as a consequence of the silver influx from the Americas, whereas others have referred to the difficulties that the Ottoman state had to face in financing its war effort against the Safavids in Persia…
"The history of a "primary source
A short chronicle by a former janissary called Tûghî on the regicide of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II in 1622 had a definitive impact on seventeenth-century Ottoman historiography in terms of the way in which this regicide was recounted. This study examines the formation of Tûghî's chronicle and shows how within the course of the year following the regicide, Tûghî's initial attitude, which recognized the collective responsibility of the military ca…
The Debut of Kösem Sultan's Political Career
Kosem Sultan (m. 1651) est connue pour son influence politique pendant les regnes de ses fils Murad IV (1623-40) et Ibrahim (1640-48). Cet article retrace le debut de sa carriere politique et suggere qu'elle eut un role important dans la politique de succession depuis les premiere annees du regne d'Ahmed I er (1603-17)
The Second Empire
This essay proposes a new framework to study the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by focusing on the transformation of Ottoman political structures in the seventeenth century. It offers a summary of Ottoman political history up to the sixteenth century, underlines the socioeconomic transformation of the late sixteenth century and its impact on politics, and argues that the rebellions and depositions of the…
The Ottoman Mevali as 'lords of the law
This article argues that in the late-sixteenth and the early-seventeenth centuries the high-ranking Ottoman judges and professors of law, the mevali (sing. mevla, lord), came to constitute a privileged social group, a nobility of sorts, whose members could pass on their social status to their sons. It discusses briefly the legitimizing and legal-administrative functions of the ulema, or scholar-jurists, which provided them with invaluable leverag…
Lost in Historiography
This article tackles the question of why an attempt to uncover an indigenous history of limited government in the early modern Ottoman Empire has not been undertaken in twentieth-century Turkish historiography despite the obvious existence of several constituents for such a history, such as the political power and prestige of jurists (ulema), the political role of the janissary corps, and the many depositions and other revolts that they staged in…
The Ottoman Monetary Crisis of 1585 Revisited
In 1585-8, the Ottoman silver currency, the akçe, was officially devalued by 100% against the Venetian gold ducat and foreign silver currencies, and its silver content was reduced by 44%. Some scholars have interpreted this devaluation and debasement as a consequence of the silver influx from the Americas, whereas others have referred to the difficulties that the Ottoman state had to face in financing its war effort against the Safavids in Persia…
"The history of a "primary source
A short chronicle by a former janissary called Tûghî on the regicide of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II in 1622 had a definitive impact on seventeenth-century Ottoman historiography in terms of the way in which this regicide was recounted. This study examines the formation of Tûghî's chronicle and shows how within the course of the year following the regicide, Tûghî's initial attitude, which recognized the collective responsibility of the military ca…
Dispelling the Darkness of the Halberdier’s Treatise
Norman Itzkowitz (1931–2019)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)
While he was still at graduate school, Abou-El-Haj started teaching at
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occasional Zoom meeti…
President’s Note
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan, OTSA President The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occas…
President's Note
President's Note
President's Note Baki Tezcan The "President's Note" briefly summarizes recent news from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Time-dependent news and information are sent to members by email and/or posted to H-Turk, our H-Net network (https://networks.h-net.org/h-turk). We also share our announcements, including those for our monthly "What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?" (W'OTSAp) Zoom meeting series and occasional Zoom meeti…
Political science (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works)