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A Simple Approach to Overcoming Euro-Specific Feudalism

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  • Ibrahim Mulushewa Eshete

    (İbn Haldun üniversitesi)

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In debates over the nature of the Ottoman social formation, most 20th century Turkish historians have tended to argue that it was "not feudal." I argue that this is mostly because of the extent to which they have unconsciously imported and internalized Eurocentrism. In particular, it is because they have been using a Euro-specific notion or definition of feudalism as their yardstick. Also involved is a methodological, indeed philosophical failure to differentiate between genus and species, between the specific and the general. What is common to most agrarian states and societies in pre-modernity is the existence of a fief-system. But once a royal power-center resorts to fief-distribution, different power configurations can result. It is this revisionist approach to taxonomy that is proposed in this article, derived from my recently completed PhD thesis on civilizations' common structures

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  • Ibrahim Mulushewa Eshete, 2023. "A Simple Approach to Overcoming Euro-Specific Feudalism," Journal of Ibn Haldun Studies [İbn Haldun Çalışmaları Dergisi], Ibn Haldun University, vol. 8(2), pages 115-125, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ihu:ihujur:v:8:y:2023:i:2:p:115-125
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.36657/ihcd.2023.110
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