Название: Reassessing the tımar system : the case study of Vidin (1455-1693)
Автор: Soyudoğan, Muhsin
Издательство: Bilkent University
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 326
Размер: 15.5 Мб
Язык: английский
One of the main concerns of the study is to question the conventional understanding of the timar system that has been mainly built upon the terminology of the sixteenth century. The argument offered here is that the timar system evolved into its orthodox form after 1530. This transition is simply described as the change from two-layered to tripartite form of the timar system.
Moreover, the transformation of the timar system, so its degeneration, is handled as a matter of systemic paradoxes. The argument is that the development of the system also made it vulnerable. In this sense the process of the hassification, meaning the expansion and development of state/sultan’s lands, both contributed to the further development of the timar system and made it dissolve. Similarly, centralization policies of the state resulted in the timar system being highly controlled by the government; but those same policies actually led to the central state losing control over the system. This occurred through what I term the abstraction of the timar is a conceptualization of the paradoxical transformation of the system.