State, Law, and Authority in 17th-Century Ottoman Political Language: The Metaphorical Representation of Crisis and Restoration in Koçi Bey’s Treatise

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dc.contributor.authorÖzdemir, Gazi
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-01T15:48:05Z
dc.date.available2026-09-01T15:48:05Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.departmentBayburt Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractKoçi Bey's Treatise, one of the fundamental texts reflecting the perception of crisis in 17th-century Ottoman political thought, constructs institutional dissolution through a normative discourse rather than an objective report. Utilizing Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT), this study examines how the abstract perception of crisis was built within the political language of the treatise. Through qualitative content analysis, organic and cosmic metaphors such as the "body" (beden), "rose garden" (gülşen), "cover" (libâs), "corpse" (lâşe), and "mirror" (ayna) were categorized into four thematic clusters: state structure, legal status, bureaucratic dissolution, and the restoration of authority (ihya). The findings indicate that these metaphors function not merely as aesthetic rhetorical devices, but as strategic tools that objectify the deterioration of meritocracy as an ontological corruption (fesâd). Consequently, they legitimize the refortification of central authority on Sharia-customary (şer'î-örfî) grounds. The treatise encodes socio-economic upheavals not as an empirical collapse, but as a moral illness requiring healing around the ideal of the classical order (nizâm-ı kadîm). Ultimately, this study aims to provide an interdisciplinary contribution by revealing how historical reality was structured through literary discourse within the Ottoman crisis literature (decline topos). Copyright (c) 2026 Gazi Özdemir. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.identifier.endpage70
dc.identifier.issn2545-398X
dc.identifier.issue21
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105045304737
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4
dc.identifier.startpage61
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12403/8384
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.institutionauthorÖzdemir, Gazi
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherGoce Delchev University of Shtip
dc.relation.ispartofPalimpsest
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260820
dc.subjectCognitive Metaphor
dc.subjectKoçi Bey'S Treatise
dc.subjectLiterary Discourse
dc.subjectMirror For Princes (Nasihatname)
dc.subjectOttoman Intellectual History
dc.subjectOttoman Literature
dc.titleState, Law, and Authority in 17th-Century Ottoman Political Language: The Metaphorical Representation of Crisis and Restoration in Koçi Bey’s Treatise
dc.title.alternativeXVII. YÜZYIL OSMANLI SİYASET DİLİNDE DEVLET, HUKUK VE OTORİTE: KOÇİ BEY RİSALESİ’NDE KRİZİN VE İHYANIN METAFORİK TASAVVURU
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