The crisis of rule in late medieval Islam: A study of Idrīs Bidlīsī (861-926/1457-1520) and kingship at the turn of the sixteenth century
[Thesis]
Christopher Andrew Markiewicz
Fleischer, Cornell H.
The University of Chicago
2015
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Committee members: Alam, Muzaffar; Lewis, Franklin; Woods, John E.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-08021-5
Ph.D.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The University of Chicago
2015
This dissertation examines the Ottoman transition to a new mode of kingship in the first decades of the sixteenth century by examining the life and work of Idris Bidlisi (861-926/1457-1520), one of the most dynamic scholars and statesmen of the period. It situates Bidlisi's life within the context of the sweeping geo-political changes that precipitated the dissolution of the most powerful polities in Islamic lands and the emergence of the Ottomans as preeminent.
Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; Near Eastern Studies
Social sciences;Bidlisi, Idria;Historiography;Islamic history;Ottoman Empire;Political thought;Timurids