The author defines the character of the Ottoman state in general and then interprets the state through various lenses: the state interpreted as a slave family (that is, as a macrocosmic family which includes slaves), as a missionary enterprise and an educational system, as an army, as a nobility and ...
The East India Company was the predominant economic force in the Indian subcontinent until the mid-Nineteenth Century, and John Richardson was well aware that his Arabic grammar would prove invaluable for the companys use in these areas. The grammar provides a clear introduction to the basic feature ...
