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The Destruction of the Janissaries 1826

by Declan Brien-Moran
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235968530
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Silverback Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Silverback Books
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  • Pages: 386
  • Original Price: GBP 17.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 445 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire

The Destruction of the Janissaries 1826

In June 1826, Sultan Mahmud II accomplished what every Ottoman reformer before him had failed to achieve: the total destruction of the Janissary corps, the five-century-old praetorian military institution that had held the empire's political life hostage and blocked every serious attempt at modernization. Officially celebrated in Istanbul as the Vak'a-i Hayriyye, the Auspicious Incident, and mourned in the Balkan provinces as the Vaka-i Şerriyye, the Event of Malignity, this single morning's violence transformed the Ottoman Empire more fundamentally than any military campaign or diplomatic settlement could have done.

The Destruction of the Janissaries 1826 covers the full arc of this transformation: from the Janissary corps's origins in the devşirme levy and its golden age of military achievement, through its centuries-long metamorphosis into an urban economic power and praetorian kingmaker, to Mahmud II's eighteen-year preparation for the final confrontation and its violent, carefully engineered conclusion. Drawing on revisionist scholarship and the full range of Ottoman, Balkan, and European sources, the book examines the military, political, and socioeconomic dimensions of 1826 with equal rigour, recovering the human costs that the official narrative suppressed while assessing the institutional transformation whose consequences extended to the declaration of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

Necessary and terrible. Auspicious and malignant. This is the full reckoning with the event that made the modern Turkish state possible.

Brien-Moran, Declan: -

Declan Pasha-Moran is an Irish historian and writer with a longstanding fascination with the intersection of military power, religious culture, and political transformation in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. A graduate of University College Dublin with postgraduate research focused on nineteenth-century Islamic political history, he has spent more than a decade studying the structural transformations that produced the modern Middle East and the Balkans from the wreckage of the Ottoman imperial order. His particular interest lies in the human dimensions of institutional change, in the communities that bear the cost of transformations whose necessity their architects understand and whose price they do not share. The Destruction of The Janissaries is his most ambitious work to date, tracing a single morning's violence across five centuries of history and one hundred years of consequence. He lives in Dublin, where he continues to research and write at the intersection of Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history.

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