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Political Literacy and the Politics of Eloquence: Ottoman Scribal Community in the Seventeenth Century
(2014-02-25)
In 1703, the chief scribe (reisü'l-küttab) Rami Mehmed Efendi (d. 1708) was appointed as the grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire. In scholarship, Rami Mehmed epitomizes the transition in the political cadres from the people ...