HIST4150 : Study Guide.docx
11 Mar 2014
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Islamic concepts of rule: caliphal absolutism vs. the military patronage state. Basically, there was a disconnect between the top administration and the urban administration. Urban administration had more autonomy in this type of state as opposed to states during caliphate state rule. Thus urban administration was sometimes ethnically different from the top military ruling class. Most successful muslim empire of this middle period. Osman- founded of the ottoman empire who had a dream about a tree (his descendants) that would grow to overshadow the earth. He starts out as a war lord in anatolia over the. Took bursa (a big trade stop which brought a lot of wealth into his state) They were on good terms with the byzantines and helped them conquer an enemy (but then they took the lands and moved their capital to edirne. Janisseries- sort of like mamaluks but from within the empire.
