The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909

by Selim Deringil

The Ottoman Empire was the only great European Muslim power and was at one time the most serious threat to European Christendom. Yet, by the turn of the nineteenth century, it was a crumbling power that, paradoxically, retained a strong military force. The Well-Protected Domains examines this anomaly, showing how the late Ottoman state grappled with the challenges of the modernity then changing the world. Selim Deringil traces the Ottoman state's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848857861
• ISBN13: 9781848857865
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"