Diagnosing the State: Medical Metaphors in Ottoman Political Writing

This paper traces the transformation in how Ottoman scribes, statesmen, and bureaucrats imagined the body politic from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by focusing on metaphors derived from medicine and the human body. As others have shown, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman political...

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Authors: Topal, Alp Eren (Author) ; Wigen, Einar 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 299-324
Further subjects:B Galenic medicine
B body politic
B conceptual history
B sick man of Europe
B Ottoman Empire
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