Everyday Life in Ottoman TurkeyDorset Press, 1988 - 206 էջ [Raphaela Lewis] sketches the history of the Ottoman dynasty and shows how it fell heir to the Eastern Roman Empire and made its capital in the city of Constantine the Great, renamed Istanbul. She then describes the administrative structure of the Empire, with its extraordinary system of recruitment whereby membership of the civil and military establishment was in principle confined to the Sultan's Christian-born slaves. The dominant faith of the Empire was Islam, and there is a full account of its duties and practices, which moulded the life of the Turk...The author also takes us inside the great imperial mosques, the thronged and colourful bazaars, schoolrooms, palaces and private houses and takes us down fascinating byways, showing how the Sultan's cannon were cast, how children prayed for rain, how the people passed the nights of Ramadan, and how important a social occasion for women were the weekly visits to the hammam, the public baths...Lewis has not neglected life in Anatolia and the non-Turkish provinces, and she has also provided a glossary of Turkish terms used in the book. -- Dust jacket. |
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List of Ottoman Sultans | 9 |
Ottoman Turkey its History and People I I | 11 |
The Establishment | 21 |
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accompanied addition administration akches Allah Anatolia animals army Bayezid II became Bosphorus boys bride brought buildings cadi caiques camel celebrated ceremony charshi Chief Christian circumcision clothes colours conquests courtyard craft dances decorated dervish Devshirme Divan dress Edirne empire festivities feudal gifts girl Greek guild hammam hand harem head holy household hung imperial Islam Istanbul Janissaries Kaaba Karagöz khans Koran land lived marriage Mecca medreses Mehmed Mehmed II Mevlevi mosque muftis Murad III Muslim night occasion Ottoman Palace particularly passed peasants performed pilgrims prayer provinces quarters Ramadan recited religion religious rich round Rumelia Selim II Seljuk servants sheikh silk slaves soldiers sometimes stone street Suleyman Suleyman the Magnificent Sultan taxes tomb took town trade tughra turban Turkey Turkish Turks ulema usually village Vizier walls waqf wedding women wore الله