Ottoman History Through The Eyes of Aşıkpaşazade by Lale Özdemir

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demonstrates with textual examples from Aşıkpaşazade how this is particularly true of modern scholarship’s aim to usually disprove the late Paul Wittek’s theory that the early Ottomans expanded their territories in the name of Islam as ghazis. The author takes the view that Aşıkpaşazade should not be used as source to shed light on modern theories regarding the use of the Ottomans because this misses the point of the substance of Aşıkpaşazade’s history. According to Özdemir it was completely normal that Aşıkpaşazade should go to great lengths to present the Ottomans as champions of the faith as himself was a dervish-ghazi who took part in the military campaigns of the period. Aşıkpaşazade’s history comprised of chapters that narrate how a particular ruler conquered lands within the context of ghaza. Overall Ottoman History Through The Eyes of Aşıkpaşazade provides a fresh approach to the study of Aşıkpaşazade and his place within fifteenth-century Ottoman historiography and clearly demonstrates that the attitudes of Aşıkpaşazade himself are not only worthy of further examination but generally speaking dispel some of the theories previously put forward on Aşıkpaşazade

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