Le corps du sultan ottoman

The sultan’s person is the keystone of the Ottoman Empire. Its very existence secures the world’s order. It is not surprising, then, that the Ottoman society never accepted the possibility of a break in the dynastic continuity, attaching a great importance to the physical presence of the monarch’s p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolas Vatin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2006-11-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/2981