Nasihatnameler, İcmal Defterleri, And The Timar –Holding Ottoman Elite In the Late Sixteenth Century– Part II, Including The Seventeenth Century

Abstract

The present study serves as an addendum to my article in a previous issue of this journal, which gave figures from the icmal defterleri on timar awards in the sixteenth century. This addendum carries the story into the seventeenth century and adds data on the sixteenth century that was not in the previous article. The earlier article showed that contrary to what we have been told by the writers of advice literature (nasihatnameler), the social groups from which recipients of provincial (eşkinci) timars were drawn did not change around 1580.