1966/04/01 by Jehoshua M. Grintz · 10 citations
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Treaty #Political science #History #Law
paper · doi:10.2307/596424
published in Journal of the American Oriental Society 86(2), 113 (American Oriental Society)
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commanding the destiny of the Empire.128 This was and is, of course, not just the failing of the Ottoman system but a danger quite common to all empires. Only the incredible richness, accessibility and relative ease of control over the resources which the Ottomans commanded in the Black Sea region and, in general, in its Balkan and Anatolian heartlands, made it possible for the Ottoman Empire to survive the very serious internal and external threats to its viability in the period between the end of the sixteenth century and the Treaty of Kuiguik Kaynarja in 1774. 128 See the standard study on these themes by T. W. Arnold, The Preaching of Islam (Lahore, 1956), especially pp. 1-44, 145-205, 440-46, and P. Wittek, The Rise of the Ottoman Empire (London, 1938), passim. As the Grand Vizier, Sokollu Mehemmed Pasha was reported to have said when faced with the demands of the war party for war against Persia, Those who propose this project are those who do not know the fatigues of the Persian campaign, [and] who, leaving aside horses and pack animals, do not even ride oxen. Cf. Pegevi, Tarh, II, pp. 36-37.