... Sultanate Tanzimat Anatolia Dīvān i Hümāyūn kadijustiz al Dīwān al ʿĀlī petitioning decentralization of government power decline paradigm in Ottoman historiography Hathaway Jane Mikhail Alan Ottomanization of Egypt ʿAzabān regiment chronicles Hanna Nelly Janissary regiment ʿUthmān Bey Dhū ʾl...

... aḥkām Majlis al tujjār decentralization of government power decline paradigm in Ottoman historiography Köprülü reforms Ottomanization of Egypt coffee trade governor of Egypt petitioning Qāzdughlī household ʿUthmān Bey Dhū ʾl Faqār Islamic legal historiography Ottoman historiography Medieval...

... in Ottoman historiography that hereditary nobility lacked legal recognition within the Ottoman politico-administrative system. By drawing on recent comparative revisionist perspectives, the introduction views hereditary nobility as a historical phenomenon rather than a rigid category defined solely by legal...

... of the Ottoman Empire. Through this example, the chapter highlights the significance of the noble title of beg in the post-Ottoman era. Subsequently, the conclusion explores how the analysis of the Kurdish nobility enables a reexamination of established notions in Ottoman historiography concerning elite...