| ID | 172375 |
| Title Proper | Order as a chronotope of Ottoman political writing |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Topal, Alp Eren |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article proposes the concept of order as a major chronotope of Ottoman political writing which has shaped temporal projections such as decline and renewal from the seventeenth century onwards. In chronological order, I discuss the seventeenth-century debates on breakdown of social order and emergence of the sense of decline, and the eighteenth-century literature on Khaldunian concept of nomadic versus sedentary forms of habitation and spatiality of the debates over moral degeneration. The urban space of Istanbul, both material and abstract, as a political and social setting also figures prominently in these discussions and shapes Ottoman perceptions of the European city. Through a discussion of the chronotope of order I also challenge pervasive narratives of Westernisation and progress in favour of indigenous cyclical narratives of restoration and renewal. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary Levant Vol. 5, No.1; Apr 2020: p.24-32 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary Levant Vol: 5 No 1 |
| Key Words | Order ; Decline ; Temporality ; Chronotope ; Revival ; Ottoman Political Thought ; Levantine City ; Cyclicism |