Caroline Finkel is a historian of the Ottoman Empire, and this John Murray book is her standard narrative scholarly history of the Ottoman Empire from its founding around 1300 to its end in 1923. Its strength is that it is widely regarded as the standard single-volume English-language history of the empire, giving established historical facts about the Ottoman state, including the place of religious orders such as the Mevlevi and Bektashi within it, real reliability. Its limit is that it is a general political history, so a claim needing specialist analysis of the Mevlevi or Bektashi orders' own internal doctrine or practice, rather than their place within Ottoman political history, needs a source focused specifically on that order.
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Caroline Finkel's standard narrative scholarly history of the Ottoman Empire from its founding to its end; a general political history, not a specialist source on the Mevlevi or Bektashi orders' own doctrine or practice. NotesCaroline Finkel's standard narrative scholarly history of the Ottoman Empire from its founding to its end. Use for established historical facts about the Ottoman Empire generally, including the Mevlevi and Bektashi orders' place within it; a general political history, not a specialist source on either order's own doctrine or practice.
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AuthorCaroline Finkel
PublisherJohn Murray
Publication Year2005
Source Typebook
Claims Backed By This Source (47 claims)
This source backs 47 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 12 holds, 4 connected. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Articles, 12 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 7 claims: 2 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Bodies of Water, 6 claims: 1 well-attested, 3 holds, 2 general references.
- Religious Orders, 4 claims: 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Legal Instruments, 1 claims: 1 holds.
- Schools of Religious Law, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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12Religious Legal Instruments
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