Tulip time

The time of the tulips ( Turkish : Lâle Devri ) was the epoch of Ottoman history in which the Grand Vizier of Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pascha and the Sultanate of Ahmed III. overlapped, i.e. 1718–1730. Sometimes the entire period of rule of Sultan Ahmed III, 1703–1730, is understood as the tulip time . The name is derived from the farm's fondness for tulips .

In the meantime, people have moved to putting the tulip time in quotation marks, as this is a literary-historical construct invented by Ahmet Refik at the beginning of the 20th century with a view to contemporary politics, which the contemporaries of the tulip time probably did not Form was perceived as it was later written in history, following Ahmet Refik. This applies above all to the beginning of westernization, which is said to have started during this period, and to secularization tendencies that can actually only be demonstrated for the following century.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinz: The culture of the tulip time of the Ottoman Empire. In: Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient. 61, 1962, ISSN  0084-0076 , pp. 62-116.
• Can Erimtan: Ottomans Looking West? The Origins of the Tulip Age and Its Development in Modern Turkey. Tauris Academic Studies et al., London et al. 2008, ISBN 978-1-84511-491-6 ( Library of Ottoman Studies 14).