The First of the Modern Ottomans : The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Dramatis personae; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Out of the east: early life (c.1735?68); 2. At war (1768?74); 3. Years of faction and reform (1774?87); 4. 'Honorable exile': in Spain (1787?8); 5. At war (1788?92); 6. Vasıf and the new order (1792?1800); 7. The height of fame (1800?6); 8. Epilogue: Vasıf as ancient and modern; Appendix: on the authorship of the Final Word to Refute the Rabble; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.