Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.
Syracuse University Press Formation of the modern state: the ottoman empire, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, second edition, paperback/rifa'at abou-el-haj
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