The politic meaning of Ottoman printing house
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2008-12-01
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Uludağ Üniversitesi
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1699’dan sonraki yıllarda gösterdiği kurumsallaşma çabalarıyla Osmanlı devletiyle ilgilenmek ve onu bu çabalarıyla tanımlamaya çalışmak neredeyse genel bir yaklaşım haline gelmiştir. Üstelik bu çabalarin doğru anlaşıldığina ilişkin verilerin de yetersiz olduğu belirtilmelidir. Devletin toprak kaybetmeye başladıktan sonra yeni polItik araçlar geliştirmesinin kaçinılmazlığinı yüzünü Batıya dönmüş olmakla değerlendirmek bu yanlış anlaşılmanin yol başıdır. Karlofça sonrası ve bütün bir XVIII. yüzyıl boyunca izlenen politikalarin küçülmeye karşın mevziini güçlenerek koruma yönünde olduğunu görmek zor değildir. Hristiyan Batı dünyası karşısında Müslüman Doğu dünyasının koruyuculuğu bilincini muhafaza ettiği sürece bir Osmanlı Batılılaşmasindan söz etmenin anlamlı olduğu söylenemez. Osmanlının Batılılaşma yönünde değil Batıya karşı güçlenme temelinde matbaa ile yöneldiği girişim bu yöndeki girişimlerin ilki olmasa bile ilginç bir örneğidir.
By its turning into institution efforts shown in the years after 1699, concerning with Ottoman Empire and trying to define it with its these efforts has become almost a general approach. Furthermore; it must also be clarified that datums which show that these efforts have been understood correctly are not enough. Evaluating the nevitableness of the Empire’s improving new politic means after it began to lose land as it turns its face to the West is the essence of this wrong approach. It’s not hard to see that politics followed after Karlofça and through a whole XVIIIth Century are in the way of protecting its position against becoming small by getting strong. It can’t be said that talking about an Ottoman Westernization is meaningful as long as it maintains its protection conscious of the Eastern Muslim world against the Western Christian World. The attempt which Ottoman Empire went towards not in the way of Westernization, but in the essence of being strong against the West with the printing house may not be the first of these attempts, but it’s an interesting sample of them.
By its turning into institution efforts shown in the years after 1699, concerning with Ottoman Empire and trying to define it with its these efforts has become almost a general approach. Furthermore; it must also be clarified that datums which show that these efforts have been understood correctly are not enough. Evaluating the nevitableness of the Empire’s improving new politic means after it began to lose land as it turns its face to the West is the essence of this wrong approach. It’s not hard to see that politics followed after Karlofça and through a whole XVIIIth Century are in the way of protecting its position against becoming small by getting strong. It can’t be said that talking about an Ottoman Westernization is meaningful as long as it maintains its protection conscious of the Eastern Muslim world against the Western Christian World. The attempt which Ottoman Empire went towards not in the way of Westernization, but in the essence of being strong against the West with the printing house may not be the first of these attempts, but it’s an interesting sample of them.
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Matbaa, Müteferrika, Jeopolitik, Osmanlı Devleti, Printing house, Muteferrika, Geopolitics, Ottoman State
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Mermutlu, B. (2008). “The politic meaning of Ottoman printing house”. Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 9(15), 297-318.