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Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman offered the Enlightenment Republic of Letters its most authoritative work on Islam and the Ottomans, also a practical reference work for kings and statesmen. Profusely illustrated and opening deep insights into illustrated book production in this period, this is also the century’s richest collection of visual documentation on the Ottomans. Shaped by the author’s personal struggles, the work yet commands recognition in its own totality as a monument to intercultural understanding. In form one of the great taxonomic works of Enlightenment thought, this is a work of advocacy in the cause of reform and amity among France, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire.
Price: $104.00
Pages: 398
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
21 March 2019
ISBN: 9789004363120
Format: Hardcover
“With the publication of Enlightening Europe, Carter Findley has reconstructed an extraordinary story of one of the greatest of the large folio productions on the Ottomans in the age before engraving gave way to lithography and photography, making the Orient accessible and widely popular across Europe and North America.”
- Virginia Aksan, McMaster University in: International Journal of Middle East Studies Volume 53 , Issue 4 (2021).
“Findley’s work is a significant contribution to understanding this outstanding source describing the Ottoman Empire during the Enlightenment as he describes and analyzes the Tableau, as well as providing its illustrations. His description of the work is lengthy in proportion to his historiographic analysis of the value of the work. Nevertheless, Findley provides evidence that this source will continue to repay the attention of scholars for its contribution to understanding the Ottoman Empire as it evolved during this crucial period when d’Ohsson advocated reform if the empire was to compete with its European neighbors.”
- Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Brigham Young University in: Journal of Modern History , (2023).
- Virginia Aksan, McMaster University in: International Journal of Middle East Studies Volume 53 , Issue 4 (2021).
“Findley’s work is a significant contribution to understanding this outstanding source describing the Ottoman Empire during the Enlightenment as he describes and analyzes the Tableau, as well as providing its illustrations. His description of the work is lengthy in proportion to his historiographic analysis of the value of the work. Nevertheless, Findley provides evidence that this source will continue to repay the attention of scholars for its contribution to understanding the Ottoman Empire as it evolved during this crucial period when d’Ohsson advocated reform if the empire was to compete with its European neighbors.”
- Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Brigham Young University in: Journal of Modern History , (2023).
Carter Vaughn Findley, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1969), Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, is the author of Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History (2010), The Turks in World History (2005), and two books on Ottoman administrative reform.