The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative reform, it also lost much of its influence on the European stage through war and revolt. In this book, Ethan L. Menchinger sheds light on intellectual life, politics, and reform in the Empire through the study of one of its leading intellectuals and statesmen, Ahmed Vâs?f. Vâs?f's life reveals new aspects of Ottoman letters - heated debates over moral renewal, war and peace, justice, and free will - but it also forces the reappraisal of Ottoman political reform, showing a vital response that was deeply enmeshed in Islamic philosophy, ethics, and statecraft. Tracing Vâs?f's role through the turn of the nineteenth century, this book opens the debate on modernity and intellectualism for those students and researchers studying the Ottoman Empire, intellectual history, the Enlightenment, and Napoleonic Europe.
| ISBN: | 9781316647943 |
| Publication date: | 13th February 2020 |
| Author: | Ethan L University of Toronto Menchinger |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 356 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |
| Genres: |
Middle Eastern history European history Military history |