This book is a study of the Ottoman military and diplomatic involvements in Iran during the critical years that followed the collapse of the Safavid dynasty. Contrary to the image of an Empire that followed largely passive and defensive policies in the early eighteenth century, this study will reveal that the Ottoman Empire was remarkably proactive in this period. The Ottomans under the political leadership of Damat İbrahim Pasha (d. 1730) designed their Iranian policies during the 1720s with a distinct awareness of European international politics as well as of local Iranian politics and with the aim not just to protect but also to improve the position of the Empire in a changing global order. Diplomacy constituted an important dimension of the Ottomans’ engagements in Iran, culminating in the 1724 Partition Treaty with Russia, which arranged for the division of the Safavid territory between the Ottoman and Russian empires. War-making constituted the other facet of Ottoman engagements in Iran, and was motivated by complex military, strategic, administrative and economic calculations. Finally, their engagement in Iran brought the Ottomans in contact, and for a time, in conflict with another power, the Afghan invaders of Isfahan. In the religio-legal disputes with the Afghan ulama, the Ottoman side evoked a universalist understanding of the caliphate in anticipation of trends that historians have conventionally dated to the late nineteenth century.
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Kitabın Adı: |
The Scramble for Iran: Ottoman Military and Diplomatic Engagements During the Afghan Occupation of Iran, 1722-1729 |
Yazan: |
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Dizi Adı: |
History: 189 |
Baskı Adedi: |
100 |
Yayın Yılı: |
2017 |
Sayfa: |
220 |
Ebat: |
13.5 x 21 cm. |
Kağıt: |
Enzo 70 gr. |
Kapak: |
Bora Gürsoy |
Cilt/Kapak: |
250 gr. Mat, Amerikan Bristol, 4 renk |
ISBN/Barkod: |
978-605-2380-14-7 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES ON DATES AND TRANSLITERATION
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Approach of this Study
Sources
Clarification about some terms
Structure of the book
CHAPTER 2
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BALANCE OF POLITICS (1718-1724)
Introduction
The Broader Context: Diplomacy in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe
Ottoman-Russian Relations and the Case For Peace
Republican Ideology and Cultural Policies
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3
AYAS PASHA CONFERENCES AND THE PARTITION TREATY (1724)
Introduction
Conferences
Partition
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4
OTTOMAN EXPANSION IN THE CAUCASUS AND WESTERN IRAN (1724-1726)
Introduction
Expansion
Tbilisi
Yerevan
Tabriz
Hamadan
Motivations and methods
Motives and causes
Administering Iran
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5
OTTOMAN-AFGHAN RELATIONS (1726-1729)
Introduction
Ottoman-Afghan Diplomacy
The Afghan Envoy
Correspondence of Ulama
The Letter of Afghan Ulama
Letter of Selim Efendi
Ottoman Caliphate
War with Ashraf Khan
Preparations for War
War
Peace with Ashraf Shah
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSION
Epilogue: The Collapse of Ottoman Foreign Policy
Conclusion
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
