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85%;">(1914–1918)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Partition of the Ottoman Empire">Partitioning</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(1918–1922)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolition_of_the_Ottoman_sultanate" title="Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate">Abolition of the Sultanate</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(1922)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolition_of_the_Caliphate" title="Abolition of the Caliphate">Abolition of the Caliphate</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(1924)</span></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="border-top:#aaa 1px solid; border-bottom:#aaa 1px solid;"> <a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Historiography of the Ottoman Empire">Historiography</a> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ghaza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_decline_thesis" title="Ottoman decline thesis">Decline</a>)</td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Template:History of the Ottoman Empire"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Template talk:History of the Ottoman Empire"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of the Ottoman Empire"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Ghaza</b> or <b>Ghazi thesis</b> (from <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Turkish language">Ottoman Turkish</a>: <span lang="ota" dir="rtl">غزا</span>, <i>ġazā</i>, "holy war", or simply "raid")<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a since disputed historical <a href="/wiki/Paradigm" title="Paradigm">paradigm</a> first formulated by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wittek" title="Paul Wittek">Paul Wittek</a> which has been used to interpret the nature of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> during the earliest period of its history, the fourteenth century,<sup id="cite_ref-Kafadar_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kafadar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its subsequent history. The thesis addresses the question of how the Ottomans were able to expand from a small principality on the frontier of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> into a centralized, intercontinental empire. According to the Ghaza thesis, the Ottomans accomplished this by attracting recruits to fight for them in the name of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_holy_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic holy war">Islamic holy war</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Kafir" title="Kafir">non-believers</a>. Such a warrior was known in <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish" title="Ottoman Turkish">Ottoman Turkish</a> as a <i><a href="/wiki/Ghazi_(warrior)" title="Ghazi (warrior)">ghazi</a></i>, and thus this thesis sees the early Ottoman state as a "Ghazi State," defined by an ideology of holy war. The Ghaza thesis dominated early Ottoman historiography throughout much of the twentieth century before coming under increasing criticism beginning in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-Kafadar_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kafadar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historians now generally reject the Ghaza thesis, and consequently the idea that Ottoman expansion was primarily fueled by holy war, but disagree about what hypothesis to replace it with.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ghaza_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghaza-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation_of_the_Ghaza_thesis">Formation of the Ghaza thesis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Formation of the Ghaza thesis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Ghaza thesis was first formulated in the 1930s by Turkish historian <a href="/wiki/Mehmet_Fuat_K%C3%B6pr%C3%BCl%C3%BC" title="Mehmet Fuat Köprülü">Fuat Köprülü</a> and Austrian historian <a href="/wiki/Paul_Wittek" title="Paul Wittek">Paul Wittek</a>. Partly in response to contemporary <a href="/wiki/Orientalism" title="Orientalism">Orientalist</a> historians, who tried to marginalize the role of the Turks in Ottoman state formation, Köprülü formulated what was to become the nationalized view of early Ottoman history. According to Köprülü, the Ottoman polity was formed by Turkish tribes fleeing the advance of the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a>, built upon Turkish tribal manpower, and administered by men from the Anatolian hinterland experienced in the Turco-Muslim political tradition of the <a href="/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum" title="Sultanate of Rum">Seljuks</a>. </p><p>Paul Wittek, responding to Köprülü's claims, accepted the Turco-Muslim basis of the early Ottoman state, agreeing that it grew out of the already highly developed civilization of Seljuk Anatolia and was fundamentally shaped by the unique conditions of the Byzantine frontier. Yet rather than Turkish ethnicity and tribal connections, he placed his primary emphasis upon the role of Islam. For Wittek, the Ottomans were first and foremost Islamic holy warriors. His primary evidence for this included the titles adopted by early Ottoman rulers, including an inscription erected in <a href="/wiki/Bursa" title="Bursa">Bursa</a> in 1337 describing <a href="/wiki/Orhan" title="Orhan">Orhan</a>, the second Ottoman ruler, as "ghazi, son of ghazi." Wittek also relied upon the work of the early fifteenth-century Ottoman poet Ahmedi, who likewise described the early Ottoman rulers as ghazis. Thus, in this formulation, the early Ottoman polity was built upon an "ideology of Holy War," and was able to grow powerful by attracting warriors to join in conquering the Christians of Anatolia and the Balkans. The early Ottomans harnessed the religious and martial energies of the frontier (<i>uc</i>) between the crumbling Byzantine and Seljuk states in order to conquer an empire.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was Wittek's formulation which became generally (though not unanimously) accepted among Western historians of the Ottoman Empire for much of the twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Revisionism">Revisionism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Revisionism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fundamental problem with the study of the fourteenth-century Ottomans is the lack of surviving documentation from that time period. Not a single authentic written Ottoman document has been found from the time of <a href="/wiki/Osman_I" title="Osman I">Osman I</a>, the first Ottoman ruler.<sup id="cite_ref-Kafadar_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kafadar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historians are thus forced to rely upon sources produced long after the events they purport to describe. Ottoman studies have thus benefited from the techniques of <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary criticism</a>, allowing historians to properly analyze Ottoman literary works from later periods.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ghaza thesis came under attack from numerous scholars beginning in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critics drew attention to the fact that the early Ottomans acted in ways contrary to what one would expect from zealous religious warriors. They were not strictly orthodox Muslims, but rather tolerated many heterodox and <a href="/wiki/Syncretic" class="mw-redirect" title="Syncretic">syncretic</a> beliefs and practices. They also willingly recruited Byzantines into their ranks and fought wars against other Muslims. Thus rather than describing reality, later Ottoman writers who characterized their ancestors as ghazis were "adorning [them] with higher ideals," when in fact their original motivations had been much more mundane. For Ottomans writing in the fifteenth century, presenting the earlier Ottoman rulers as ghazis served their political objectives.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In emphasizing the mythical and legendary quality of the stories presented by Ottoman writers, the historian <a href="/wiki/Colin_Imber" title="Colin Imber">Colin Imber</a> has gone so far as to declare the entire period a "black hole," the truth about which can never truly be known.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Ottomans_as_a_tribal_group">The Ottomans as a tribal group</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Ottomans as a tribal group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While many scholars criticized the Ghaza thesis, few sought an alternative to replace it. Rudi Paul Lindner was the first to try in his 1983 publication <i>Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia</i>, in which he argued that the peculiarities of early Ottoman activity could best be explained through tribalism. Lindner saw tribalism through the lens of <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a>, which views tribes as organizations based not on shared bloodlines, but on shared political interests.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early Ottoman raids against the Byzantines were motivated not by religious zeal, but by the nomadic tribe's need to engage in predation against settled society.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ottomans were able to incorporate Byzantines and fight against Muslims because their organization was fundamentally tribal, which allowed them to assimilate individuals and groups of diverse backgrounds. Citing various instances of their heterodoxy, Lindner even suggested that the early Ottomans may have been more Pagan than Muslim.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Lindner's view, this tribal inclusiveness began to break down during the reign of Osman's son <a href="/wiki/Orhan" title="Orhan">Orhan</a> (r. 1323/4-1362), as the Ottomans began to shift from being nomadic pastoralists into settled agricultural society. Orhan subsequently attracted Islamic scholars to his realm, who brought with them ideas about <i>ghaza</i>, and it was from them that he adopted the <i>ghaza</i> ideology in time for it to appear in his 1337 inscription in Bursa.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghaza_as_one_of_many_factors">Ghaza as one of many factors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ghaza as one of many factors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his 1995 book <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>, Turkish scholar <a href="/wiki/Cemal_Kafadar" title="Cemal Kafadar">Cemal Kafadar</a> addressed criticism of the Ghaza thesis by arguing that previous scholars had drawn too great a distinction between "orthodox" and "heterodox" Islam – one could consider oneself a legitimate Muslim without conforming exactly to a scholarly orthodoxy.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, Kafadar argued that the early Ottomans' very idea of <i>ghaza</i> may have differed from that of "orthodox" Islam. Citing contemporary Anatolian legends, he noted that the same figure could be portrayed as a <i>ghazi</i> while still cooperating with Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Kafadar's view, <i>ghaza</i> was a real ideology which gave shape to frontier warriors as a social class, not simply an import from Muslim scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the terms <i>ghaza</i> and <i>ghazi</i> had a range of different meanings which shifted over time, sometimes referring to religiously motivated warriors and sometimes not.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was nevertheless ever present, and served as simply one out of many motivating forces behind Ottoman expansion.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghaza_as_a_non-religious_term">Ghaza as a non-religious term</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ghaza as a non-religious term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following Kafadar, the next major reformulation of the theory of Ottoman origins was carried out by <a href="/wiki/Heath_W._Lowry" title="Heath W. Lowry">Heath Lowry</a> in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lowry attacked Wittek's sources, arguing that Ahmedi's literary work cannot be interpreted as factual history, but rather was a fictionalized idealization of the past.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Lowry, the terms <i>ghaza</i> and <i>ghazi</i> when used in the fourteenth and fifteenth-century Ottoman context had entirely non-religious meanings, as <i>ghaza</i> was interchangeable with the term <i>akın</i>, simply referring to a military raid. Many <i><a href="/wiki/Akinji" title="Akinji">akıncıs</a></i> (raiders) were also Christians, and would thus be very out of place in an army devoted to Islamic holy war. Ottoman warriors were thus motivated by the desire to win plunder and slaves, not to fight in the name of Islam. It was only certain writers, educated in the Islamic tradition, who tried to draw a connection between the secular <i>ghaza</i> of the frontier warriors and the religious <i>ghaza</i> as understood by Muslim intellectuals.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_consensus">New consensus</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: New consensus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While they differ in many particulars, these new perspectives on early Ottoman history share in the belief that early Ottoman expansion was not primarily fueled by an ideology of Islamic holy war. Historians now generally regard <i>ghaza</i> as having been "a much more fluid undertaking, sometimes referring to actions that were nothing more than raids, sometimes meaning a deliberate holy war, but most often combining a mixture of these elements."<sup id="cite_ref-ghaza_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghaza-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This view also appears in Caroline Finkel's 2005 scholarly survey of Ottoman history, <i>Osman's Dream</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rise_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Rise of the Ottoman Empire">Rise of the Ottoman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_decline_thesis" title="Ottoman decline thesis">Ottoman decline thesis</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <i>Cambridge History of Turkey</i> defines <i>ghaza</i> as "a raid for plunder, later came to mean holy war fought for Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Such early critics included G. Káldy-Nagy, R. C. Jennings, Colin Heywood, Colin Imber, Şinasi Tekin, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Feridun_Emecen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Feridun Emecen (page does not exist)">Feridun Emecen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaza_thesis&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKate_Fleet2009" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Kate Fleet, ed. (2009). <i>The Cambridge History of Turkey</i>. Vol. 1, Byzantium to Turkey, <span class="nowrap">1071–</span>1453. Cambridge University Press. p. 424.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Turkey&rft.pages=424&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kafadar-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kafadar_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kafadar_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kafadar_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. xi–xii.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=xi-xii&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLindner2009" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Lindner, Rudi Paul (2009). "Anatolia, 1300–1451". In Kate Fleet (ed.). <i>The Cambridge History of Turkey</i>. Vol. 1, Byzantium to Turkey, <span class="nowrap">1071–</span>1453. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 104. <q>Scholars following in Wittek's footsteps have moved away from his strong formulation, but have begun from his perspective and retain it in large part. It is probably safe to suggest that at the moment there is no agreed point of reference about which most scholars gather, and that a more eclectic approach, resting more on the sources than on scholarly tradition, holds the field.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anatolia%2C+1300%E2%80%931451&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+History+of+Turkey&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=104&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=Lindner&rft.aufirst=Rudi+Paul&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ghaza-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ghaza_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghaza_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFÁgoston2009" class="citation book cs1">Ágoston, Gábor (2009). "Ghaza (gaza)". In Ágoston, Gábor; Bruce Masters (eds.). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaotto00agos"><i>Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire</i></a></span>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaotto00agos/page/n269">231</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780816062591" title="Special:BookSources/9780816062591"><bdi>9780816062591</bdi></a>. <q>The early Ottoman military activity described as <i>ghaza</i> is now thought to have been a much more fluid undertaking, sometimes referring to actions that were nothing more than raids, sometimes meaning a deliberate holy war, but most often combining a mixture of these elements.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Ghaza+%28gaza%29&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+the+Ottoman+Empire&rft.pages=231&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=9780816062591&rft.aulast=%C3%81goston&rft.aufirst=G%C3%A1bor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fencyclopediaotto00agos&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For this summary of their views, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">10–</span>11, <span class="nowrap">35–</span>41, 48.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E10-%3C%2Fspan%3E11%2C+%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E35-%3C%2Fspan%3E41%2C+48&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span> For these authors' works see <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWittek1938" class="citation book cs1">Wittek, Paul (1938). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/riseofottomanemp0000witt"><i>The Rise of the Ottoman Empire</i></a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rise+of+the+Ottoman+Empire&rft.date=1938&rft.aulast=Wittek&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Friseofottomanemp0000witt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span>; and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKöprülü1935" class="citation book cs1">Köprülü, Mehmet Fuat (1935). <i>Les origines de l'empire ottoman</i>. Paris.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Les+origines+de+l%27empire+ottoman&rft.place=Paris&rft.date=1935&rft.aulast=K%C3%B6pr%C3%BCl%C3%BC&rft.aufirst=Mehmet+Fuat&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. 41.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=41&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. xiii.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=xiii&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. 166n56.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=166n56&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">11–</span>2, <span class="nowrap">49–</span>51. <q>The main thrust of the critique was to underline certain actions of the early Ottomans that were now deemed contradictory to the spirit of holy war and to argue therefore that they cannot have been motivated by the ghazi ethos. [...] Rather, the critics of the ghaza thesis argue, what once were plain political and/or material motives were adorned with higher ideals in later sources written by ideologues serving the Ottoman dynasty (p. 49-50).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E11-%3C%2Fspan%3E2%2C+%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E49-%3C%2Fspan%3E51&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLowry2003" class="citation book cs1">Lowry, Heath (2003). <i>The Nature of the Early Ottoman State</i>. SUNY Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">9–</span>11. <q>In 1984, Pal Fodor, a Hungarian Turcologist, opened a fresh page in the debate with an important article in which he convincingly demonstrated that the ideas of <i>ghaza</i> and <i>ghazi</i> in the work of Ahmedi (Wittek's most important source), were a literary device, whereby "Ahmedi presents the Ottoman rulers as <i>ghazis</i> in a manner that served well-definable political objectives."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Nature+of+the+Early+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E9-%3C%2Fspan%3E11&rft.pub=SUNY+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Lowry&rft.aufirst=Heath&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFImber1991" class="citation book cs1">Imber, Colin (1991). "The Legend of Osman Gazi". In Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.). <i>The Ottoman Emirate (1300–1389)</i>. Rethymnon: <a href="/wiki/Crete_University_Press" title="Crete University Press">Crete University Press</a>. p. 75. <q>Almost all the traditional tales about Osman Ghazi are fictitious. The best thing a modern historian can do is to admit frankly that the earliest history of the Ottomans is a black hole. Any attempt to fill this hole will result simply in more fables.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Legend+of+Osman+Gazi&rft.btitle=The+Ottoman+Emirate+%281300%E2%80%931389%29&rft.place=Rethymnon&rft.pages=75&rft.pub=Crete+University+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.aulast=Imber&rft.aufirst=Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLindner1983" class="citation book cs1">Lindner, Rudi P. (1983). <i>Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia</i>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">vii–</span>viii.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nomads+and+Ottomans+in+Medieval+Anatolia&rft.place=Bloomington&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3Evii-%3C%2Fspan%3Eviii&rft.pub=Indiana+University+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.aulast=Lindner&rft.aufirst=Rudi+P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLindner1983" class="citation book cs1">Lindner, Rudi P. (1983). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind"><i>Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia</i></a></span>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind/page/n36">23</a>–5. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780933070127" title="Special:BookSources/9780933070127"><bdi>9780933070127</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nomads+and+Ottomans+in+Medieval+Anatolia&rft.place=Bloomington&rft.pages=23-5&rft.pub=Indiana+University+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=9780933070127&rft.aulast=Lindner&rft.aufirst=Rudi+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnomadsottomansme00lind&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLindner1983" class="citation book cs1">Lindner, Rudi P. (1983). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind"><i>Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia</i></a></span>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind/page/n19">6</a>–7. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780933070127" title="Special:BookSources/9780933070127"><bdi>9780933070127</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nomads+and+Ottomans+in+Medieval+Anatolia&rft.place=Bloomington&rft.pages=6-7&rft.pub=Indiana+University+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=9780933070127&rft.aulast=Lindner&rft.aufirst=Rudi+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnomadsottomansme00lind&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLindner1983" class="citation book cs1">Lindner, Rudi P. (1983). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind"><i>Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia</i></a></span>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nomadsottomansme00lind/page/n42">29</a>–37. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780933070127" title="Special:BookSources/9780933070127"><bdi>9780933070127</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nomads+and+Ottomans+in+Medieval+Anatolia&rft.place=Bloomington&rft.pages=29-37&rft.pub=Indiana+University+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=9780933070127&rft.aulast=Lindner&rft.aufirst=Rudi+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnomadsottomansme00lind&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">50–</span>3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E50-%3C%2Fspan%3E3&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">70–</span>5. <q>My intention here is not to provide more evidence of cooperation between Anatolian Muslim warriors and Byzantines, the prevalence of which is beyond doubt. The point is rather to show that the literature produced by or among the ghazis to glorify their deeds did not find it contradictory to present their ghazi protagonists in cooperation with Christians.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E70-%3C%2Fspan%3E5&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">109–</span>113.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E109-%3C%2Fspan%3E113&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. 91. <q>It would thus seem inappropriate to conceptualize ghaza by assuming, like Wittek and his critics, that it was one and the same notion of "war for the faith" from its earliest emergence to the end of the empire. Another way of looking at it would be to observe that the concept of ghaza underwent transformation in Ottoman thought.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=91&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKafadar1995" class="citation book cs1">Kafadar, Cemal (1995). <i>Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State</i>. p. 120.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Between+Two+Worlds%3A+The+Construction+of+the+Ottoman+State&rft.pages=120&rft.date=1995&rft.aulast=Kafadar&rft.aufirst=Cemal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFImber2003" class="citation journal cs1">Imber, Colin (2003). "Review of Heath Lowry's <i>The Nature of the Early Ottoman State</i>". <i>The Turkish Studies Association Journal</i>. <b>27</b>: 108. <q>Heath Lowry's <i>The Nature of the Early Ottoman State</i> is the latest in a series of works that have appeared since the 1920s, attempting to explain the origins of the Ottoman Empire and its subsequent rise to power.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Turkish+Studies+Association+Journal&rft.atitle=Review+of+Heath+Lowry%27s+The+Nature+of+the+Early+Ottoman+State&rft.volume=27&rft.pages=108&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Imber&rft.aufirst=Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLowry2003" class="citation book cs1">Lowry, Heath (2003). <i>The Nature of the Early Ottoman State</i>. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">15–</span>23.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Nature+of+the+Early+Ottoman+State&rft.place=Albany&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E15-%3C%2Fspan%3E23&rft.pub=SUNY+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.aulast=Lowry&rft.aufirst=Heath&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGhaza+thesis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLowry2003" class="citation book cs1">Lowry, Heath (2003). <i>The Nature of the Early Ottoman State</i>. 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