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" Historiography, Ottoman - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Woodhead, Christine
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AL
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English
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1061910
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ALei2307
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Woodhead, Christine
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Historiography, Ottoman - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Woodhead, Christine
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(7,401 words)
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Historiography was the most popular genre of Ottoman prose. Three main developmental phases can be identified, corresponding roughly to Ottomanist historians’ modern periodisation of Ottoman history. In the first phase, from about the beginning of the ninth/fifteenth century until the late tenth/sixteenth century, Ottoman historical writing developed from virtually nothing to become a major, court-centred, literary genre, benefitting from extensive sultanic patronage in a dynamic age when there was much achievement to celebrate and record. Although Turkish was always the principal historiographical language, some court histories from
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Islam.
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ALei2307.pdf
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