Ottoman Timar System And Its Transformation, 1563- 1656
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;advisor: Ilhan Basgoz
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The Indiana University
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: 1987
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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XIII, 265p.
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UMI Microform 8809882
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Ph.D
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, The Indiana University
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Modern historiography of the Ottoman Empire in the period following the death of Sultan Suleyman in 1566 is dominated by a paradigm of decline, a crucial element of which has been an assessment of the decline of the timar system. Reconstruction of the timar organization on the basis of the ruznamce registers, the daily records of the Ottoman Imperial Registry, reveals that in the mid-sixteenth century, the majority of timar-holders were cavalry sipahis, who received their right to a timar to their sons.