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Abstract

Edward Said formulated and discussed Orientalism for the first time and he concentrated more on the attitutes mostly towards Islam and the Arabs. He mainly examined the literary texts that were produced by the “Western mind.” By defining Orientalism as a discourse, he made an invaluable contribution to the field. This article, however, concentrates on the European perception of the Ottoman Empire starting from the sixteenth century until the modern times in terms of the interpretations about the Ottoman governance. It aims to show the Orientalist tendencies in European texts in describing the Ottoman government

Keywords

• Ottoman Empire, Orientalism, Ottoman governance, tyranny, sixteenth-seventeenth century travellers, Montesquieu, Oriental Despotism, Sultanism, Max Weber, slavery, devshirme

OSMANLI YÖNETİMİNİN ORYANTALİST İNŞASI

Öz

Oryantalizmi ilk olarak Edward Said formule etmiş ve tartışmıştır. Kendisi bunu yaparken daha çok İslam ve Araplara karşı yaklaşımlara yoğunlaşmış, bunun için de ‘Batı’da’ yazılmış edebi metinleri incelemiştir. Oryantalizmi tanımlaması açısından alana yaptığı katkı paha biçilmezdir. Bu makale ise on altıncı yüzyıldan modern zamanlara kadar ki dönemde Batı’nın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nu, özellikle Osmanlı yönetim biçimini, nasıl algıladığına konsantre olacaktır. Amacı Avrupa metinlerinde Osmanlı yönetimini tanımlarken karşılaşılan Oryantalist eğilimleri göstermektir

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Oryantalizm, Osmanlı yönetimi, tiranlık, on altı-on yedinci yüzyıl seyyahları, Montesquieu, Doğulu Despot, Sultancılık, Max Weber, kölelik, devşirme

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