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Reconsidering Local versus Central: Empire, Notables, and Employment in Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan, 1835–1878

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Uğur Bayraktar*
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Abstract

The present article is a study of provincial administration in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan. It examines the transformation of provincial administration in Dibra and Hazro after two towns’ hereditary rulers were exiled. Focusing on the employment patterns of the notables in exile as well as the ones who occupied the posts in the absence of the former, this study challenges the binary framework mostly employed in conceptualizing the making of the modern Ottoman state. Particularly, the employment of the notables exiled to the distant parts of the empire necessitates a revision in the presumptions about the origins of appointed Ottoman officials. By focusing on the partnership operating by means of employment, this study argues that the making of Ottoman state follows a trajectory of flexible centralization based on the partnership between the government and notables, terms of which were constantly negotiated.

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Ottoman EmpireTanzimatnotablesprovinceprovincial administration
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 685 - 701
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64 Complaining about the climatic conditions (ab ve hava) is an example of the rhetoric used by the Ottoman officials to either change their appointments or resign from a position. See, for instance, the cases of resignations due to failure to adapt to the local climate in Dibra and Lice: BOA, İ. MVL. 227/7750, 25 Cemaziyelahir 1268 (16 April 1852), and BOA, MVL. 608/46, 20 Şaban 1277 (3 March 1861), respectively.

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73 BOA, İ. MVL. 281/11022, 4 Zilkade 1269 (9 August 1853).

74 Ibid.

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76 BOA, MVL. 589/75, 7 Safer 1276 (5 September 1859).

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88 Ibid.

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95 Ibid.

96 BOA, A. MKT. UM. 359/93, 14 Muharrem 1276 (13 August 1859).

97 BOA, A. MKT. MVL. 113/37, 20 Cemaziyelahir 1276 (14 January 1860).

98 BOA, MVL. 630/38, 11 Zilkade 1278 (10 May 1862).

99 Ibid.

100 BOA, C. ZB. 36/1786, 7 Rabiulahir 1254 (30 June 1838); BOA, HAT. 1425/58341, no date; BOA, C. DH. 108/5385, no date.

101 BOA, İ. DH. 53/2602, 6 Muharrem 1258 (17 February 1842).

102 BOA, C. DH. 111/5512, 23 Rabiulahir 1260 (12 May 1844).

103 Ippen, “Beiträge zur inneren Geschichte,” 358.

104 The Ottoman government stripped Hakkı Pasha of his rank of mirimiran, and Talib Bey lost the rank of kapıcıbaşı. BOA, A. MKT. 22/85, 7 Rabiulevvel 1261 (16 March 1845); BOA, A. MKT. 160/33, no date.

105 There was not any change for Talib Bey in the rhetoric of Ottoman correspondence, as bey was already the lowest rank when addressing provincial notables.

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107 BOA, İ. MVL. 119/2965, 15 Cemaziyelevvel 1264 (19 April 1848); BOA, A. DVN. MHM. 5A/60, 29 Cemaziyelevvel 1264 (3 May 1848).

108 BOA, MVL. 11/5, 20 Safer 1263 (7 February 1847).

109 BOA, İ. MVL. 136/3694, 11 Rabiulahir 1265 (6 March 1849); BOA, A. AMD. 13/84, no date.

110 BOA, İ. MVL. 159/4596 1 Rabiulevvel 1266 (15 January 1850).

111 BOA, A. TŞF. 8/21, 29 Receb 1266 (10 June 1850).

112 BOA, İ. MVL. 207/6652, 16 Cemaziyelahir 1267 (19 March 1851).

113 The promotion also reinstated his rank of mirimiran. BOA, A. MKT. UM. 59/48, 15 Receb 1267 (16 May 1851).

114 BOA, A. MKT. NZD. 61/62, 6 Muharrem 1269 (20 October 1852); BOA, A. MKT. MVL. 58/2, 5 Safer 1269 (18 November 1852).

115 BOA, A. MKT. NZD. 82/3, 3 Şevval 1269 (10 July 1853); BOA, A. MKT. UM. 141/86, 3 Zilhicce 1269 (7 September 1853).

116 BOA, MVL. 95/89, 25 Zilhicce 1266 (1 November 1850).

117 BOA, MVL. 109/8, 10 Safer 1268 (5 December 1851).

118 BOA, MVL. 122/8, 4 Zilhicce 1268 (19 September 1852).

119 BOA, MVL. 122/50, 23 Zilhicce 1268 (8 October 1852).

120 BOA, MVL. 125/48, 24 Muharrem 1269 (7 November 1852); BOA, MVL. 126/23, 29 Muharrem 1269 (12 November 1852).

121 Ibid.

122 BOA, MVL. 130/26, 3 Rabiulahir 1269 (14 January 1853).

123 BOA, MVL. 130/68, 7 Rabiulahir 1269 (18 January 1853).

124 BOA, A. AMD. 49/52, 29 Zilhicce 1268 (14 October 1852).

125 BOA, A. MKT. UM. 149/48, 19 Rabiulevvel 1270 (20 December 1853).

126 BOA, A. MKT. UM. 329/88, 11 Rabiulevvel 1275 (19 October 1858).

127 BOA, MVL. 375/72, 7 Rabiulevvel 1278 (12 September 1861).

128 BOA, MVL. 560/77, 21 Şevval 1284 (15 February 1868).

129 Reinkowski, Die Dinge der Ordnung, 214–25.

130 BOA, ŞD. 1997/32, 25 Zilhicce 1278 (6 March 1872).

131 BOA, İ. MVL. 497/22480, 11 Cemaziyelahir 1280 (23 November 1863); BOA, MVL. 480/16, 11 Rabiulevvel 1282 (4 August 1865).

132 BOA, A. MKT. UM. 249/15, 21 Zilhicce 1272 (23 August 1856).

133 BOA, İ. ŞD. 17/715, 29 Cemaziyelahir 1286 (6 October 1869).

134 BOA, İ. DH. 618/43005, 2 Cemaziyelevvel 1287 (31 July 1870).

135 BOA, ŞD. 1997/32, 25 Zilhicce 1278 (6 March 1872).

136 Ibid.

137 BOA, İ. DH. 758/61836, 2 Zilkade 1294 (8 November 1877).

138 BOA, İ. DH. 81/65535, 25 Ramazan 1297 (31 August 1880).

139 BOA, DH. MKT. 1425/30, 19 Ramazan 1304 (11 June 1887).

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