TY - JOUR TI - The Ottoman Diplomatic Relations between Religious Legitimacy and Real Politics in the XVI. Century AB - This article analyzes the conduct of the foreign policy of the Ottoman Empire and its compatibility with state ideology in the sixteenth century. It attempts to point out different ways the Ottomans used religious or political discourse to justify different policies. In particular, it focuses on the ways the Ottoman Empire dealt with the Habsburg and Safavid Empires, which exemplified two ideologically different struggles for the Ottoman Empire. It compares how chronicles and official documents responded to particular events, to understand how they prescribed and projected foreign relations differently. This study contends that on the one hand, religious ideology shaped and regulated Ottoman external relations, but on the other the Ottoman Empire also reconfigured religious ideology about jihad and developed new ideological arguments for political expediency, to relieve tension between the ideology and the reality. AU - sen, m. seyyit PY - 2022 JO - FSM İlmi Araştırmalar İnsan ve Toplum Bilimler Dergisi IS - 20 SN - 2147-3153 SP - 263 EP - 290 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/1152503 ER -