{"product_id":"taming-the-messiah-aslihan-gurbuzel-9780520388215","title":"Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700","description":"In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. By uncovering the histories of these new political voices and documenting the emergence of a robust public sphere, Gürbüzel challenges two common assumptions: first, that the ideal of public political participation originated in the West; and second, that civic culture was introduced only with Westernization efforts in the nineteenth century. Contrary to these assumptions, which measure the Ottoman world against an idealized European prototype, \u003ci\u003eTaming the Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aslihan Gurbuzel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520388216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520388215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Aslihan Gurbuzel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056236491007,"sku":"9780520388215","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18926a5c-81fb-4578-9176-475c9b45c01b.jpg?v=1685040246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taming-the-messiah-aslihan-gurbuzel-9780520388215","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}