HIST 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Janissaries, Albert Hourani, Selim Iii
8 Oct 2016
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Wrote an influential essay about the politics of the notables. He was born to lebanese parents in 1939 in manchester, uk. Ottoman governors and officials didn"t connect much with locals; required support of local intermediaries: the urban notables. Some social power on their own, independent of ruler"s authority. Might be village elders, landowners, lineage, wealth, religious leaders, pious person, someone who performed a miracle, religious scholars. Those who are recognized for their education; scholars. Those who are considered religious for other reasons (e. g. performed a miracle); popular religiosity. Ottoman officials usually only spoke ottoman turkish and therefore were in need of urban notables to communicate. Notables felt threatened by tanzimat because its centralization removed them from intermediary status. Direct control by state; no middle man, i. e. no urban notables. State couldn"t speak/connect with locals without the urban notables. State became more dependent on notables to extract revenues from locals to finance the modernization efforts.
