The Ottoman Diplomatic Relations between Religious Legitimacy and Real Politics in the XVI. Century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.16947/fsmia.1225614Keywords:
Religious ideology, legitimacy, jihad, the early modern period, Süleyman IAbstract
This article analyzes the conduct of the foreign policy of the Ottoman Empire and its
compatibility with state ideology in the sixteenth century. It attempts to point out different
ways the Ottomans used religious or political discourse to justify different policies.
In particular, it focuses on the ways the Ottoman Empire dealt with the Habsburg and
Safavid Empires, which exemplified two ideologically different struggles for the Ottoman
Empire. It compares how chronicles and official documents responded to particular
events, to understand how they prescribed and projected foreign relations differently. This
study contends that on the one hand, religious ideology shaped and regulated Ottoman external
relations, but on the other the Ottoman Empire also reconfigured religious ideology
about jihad and developed new ideological arguments for political expediency, to relieve
tension between the ideology and the reality.
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