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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2014
      24 November 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139680943
      9781107072978
      9781107421295
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139680943
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 264 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 264 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Environmental History, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
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    Environmental History, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
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    This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain were measures the state took to enhance its reputation and political capital - occasional discrimination of non-Muslims was only a by-product of these measures. This study sheds new light on flight and behavioral patterns in response to impending disasters by combining historical evidence with studies in social psychology and sociology. Employing an approach that mixes environmental and social history with the psychology of disasters, this work asserts that the handling of such disasters was crucial to both the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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    'Within this recently ascendant literature, the originality of Yaron Ayalon’s book is that it takes natural disasters as a whole and reads the entire Ottoman history through their perspective. With that ambitious goal it explores the many ways by which the Ottomans came to face disasters such as plague, famine, fire, and earthquake over a period of approximately six centuries.'

    Barış Taşyakan Source: Journal of Ottoman Studies

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    • 1 - The Black Death and the Rise of the Ottomans
      pp 21-60
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