Koca Nişancı" of Kanuni : Celalzade Mustafa Çelebi, Bureaucracy and "Kanun" in the reign of Süleyman the magnificent (1520-1566)

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buir.advisorİnalcık, Halil
dc.contributor.authorYılmaz, Mehmet Şakir
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-01T11:08:43Z
dc.date.available2016-07-01T11:08:43Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation analyzes the development of Ottoman administration and its consequences in political reasoning under the reign of Sultan Süleyman in the light of career and works of nişancı Celālzāde Mustafa Çelebi. It shows that Ottoman bureaucracy did not only provide the tools for an effective administration of the state, but it also played an important role in the production of genuine Ottoman political understanding. It investigates expansion of Ottoman bureaucracy at the beginning of Süleyman’s reign and its effects on the development of a new political discourse with its emphasis on justice and kanun. It shows bureaucrats’ (kalemiyye) perception of Ottoman rule and its articulation in the works composed by members of bureaucracy on history and politics. Celālzāde Mustafa was a model bureaucrat, prose stylist and historian for late 16th century Ottoman literati, who served in the Ottoman chancery as a divan scribe (1517-1525), as reisülküttab (1525-1534) and nişancı (1534-1556, 1566-7). He contributed to the formation of a genuine Ottoman political reasoning with his works on history and ethics, as well as with his service in the chancery which undertook the codification of Ottoman laws, kanun. He was an influential bureaucrat and his views were representative for the members of Ottoman bureaucracy. A study of his life and works will reveal the struggle between different branches of Ottoman administration and the role of bureaucrats in the formation of genuine political literature which emphasized on kanun for the legitimacy of Ottoman rule.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityYılmaz, Mehmet Şakiren_US
dc.format.extentx, 255 leaves, illustrationsen_US
dc.identifier.itemidBILKUTUPB020314
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/29918
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectOttoman bureaucracyen_US
dc.subjectchanceryen_US
dc.subjectCelālzāde Mustafaen_US
dc.subject16th century Ottoman historiographyen_US
dc.subjectkanunen_US
dc.subjectnişancıen_US
dc.subject.lccDR434 .Y55 2006en_US
dc.subject.lcshBureaucracy Turkey.en_US
dc.titleKoca Nişancı" of Kanuni : Celalzade Mustafa Çelebi, Bureaucracy and "Kanun" in the reign of Süleyman the magnificent (1520-1566)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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