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Kitabu Mesalihi’l Muslimin and Counsel for Sultans: Text and Context in the Nasihatname Genre of the Ottoman Empire, 16th-17th c

Myers, Trisha Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308024579

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
This work deals with the nasihatname genre of the Ottoman Empire. While I discuss the intellectual predecessors to this genre in Ottoman political literature, I locate Mustafa Ali’s Counsel for Sultans of 1581 as the first nasihatname and a seminal work that influenced subsequent works in the genre. I engage an intertextual reading of both Counsel for Sultans and the anonymous work Kitabu Mesalihi’l Muslimin written in the mid-17th century in order to establish the nature of the genre and the boundaries, albeit sometimes porous, between the nasihatname genre and akhlak literature. A major part of this process is elucidating consciousness on the part of these authors as participating in a specific genre and therefore it is important to reconstruct the genre from the point of view of the authors, including their moral framework through which they make sense of the Ottoman system. I conclude that there was authorial consciousness in the nasihatname genre, and that it was representative of a burgeoning discursive space in which ordinary members of the bureaucracy were able to express their understanding of how the Ottoman system should function in a way that was previously inaccessible before Mustafa Ali’s Counsel for Sultans.
Snjezana Buzov, PhD (Advisor)
Parvaneh Pourshariati, PhD (Committee Member)
71 p.
Near Eastern Studies
nasihatname; Mustafa Ali; Ottoman Empire; nasihat al-muluk

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  • Myers, T. M. (2011). Kitabu Mesalihi’l Muslimin and Counsel for Sultans: Text and Context in the Nasihatname Genre of the Ottoman Empire, 16th-17th c [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308024579

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Myers, Trisha. Kitabu Mesalihi’l Muslimin and Counsel for Sultans: Text and Context in the Nasihatname Genre of the Ottoman Empire, 16th-17th c. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308024579.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Myers, Trisha. "Kitabu Mesalihi’l Muslimin and Counsel for Sultans: Text and Context in the Nasihatname Genre of the Ottoman Empire, 16th-17th c." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308024579

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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