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Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire
Carter Vaughn Findley
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From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name was used, or what aspect of the Ottoman government it properly designated. What was the real Sublime Porte? Was it an organization? A building? No more, literally, than a door or gateway? What about it was important enough to cause the name to be remembered?
In one sense, the purpose of this book is to answer these questions. Of course, it will also do much more and will, in the process, move quickly onto a plane quite different from the exoticism just invoked. For to study the bureaucratic complex properly known as the Sublime Porte, and to analyze its evolution and that of the body of men who staffed it, is to explore a problem of tremendous significance for the development of the administrative institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic lands in general, and in some senses the entire non-Westerrn world.
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Sacred Relics (Topkapi Palace), Political machine, Selim III, Governor-general, Political system, Ottoman Greeks, Legislation, Political history, Central government, Diplomatic service, Mustafa IV, Public international law, Decree, New Laws, Constitutionalist (UK), Politics, Political philosophy, Civil service, Promulgation, Abbasid Caliphate, Westernization, Popular sovereignty, Bayezid II, Center of government, Succession of states, Mughal Empire, Millet (Ottoman Empire), Imperialism, Mahmud II, Systematization (Romania), Bureaucrat, Ottoman Empire, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Head of government, Middle East, Patrician (post-Roman Europe), Salary, Benefice, Confessional community, Pahlavi dynasty, Greek War of Independence, Safavid dynasty, Eunuch, Household, Palace School, Stanford J. Shaw, Grandee, Turkish grammar, Reza Shah, Sultan, Imperial Harem, Turkish alphabet, Constitutionalism, British Library, Decentralization, Tanzimat, Crimean War, Supervisor, Ottomanism, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Spread of Islam, Janissaries, Sublime Porte, Institution, Secularization, Mehmed, Ruling class, Yahya Efendi, Caliphate, Hegemony