Halil Inalcik. The Khan and the Tribal Aristocracy: The Crimean Khanate under Sahib Giray I

Abstract

The article is a translation from English of the work of the famous Turkish Historian-Ottomanist Halil Inalcik, dedicated to the socio-political aspects of the relationship between the khan and the tribal aristocracy and building the vertical of the power in the Crimean Khanate during the reign of Sahib Giray I. On the basis of an extensive complex of sources, the author carried out a detailed analysis of the features of the internal struggle for power in the Crimean Khanate, the degree of involvement and of the Ottoman Empire on the one hand, and Muscovy on the other, as well as the role of the tribal aristocracy in the military-political life of the khanate.