Despite a growing interest worldwide in the history of emotions, the topic has attracted the attention of scholars of Ottoman history only recently. In an attempt to understand the motivations underlying political undertakings, this article explores emotions, with a specific focus on mahabbet (love) and merhamet (compassion). It examines the social meaning attached to and the cultural importance of love and compassion in early modern Ottoman political language. I claim that as a socially constructed and political emotion, compassion was historically and culturally significant, serving as a tool to formulate political relations of domination and subordination.

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早期的现代奥斯曼帝国的情感政治：爱情与爱情有什么关系？

尽管全世界对情感史的兴趣日益浓厚，但这个话题直到最近才引起奥斯曼帝国历史学者的关注。为了理解政治事业的动机，本文探讨了情绪，特别关注了马哈贝（爱情）和默罕默德（同情）。它考察了早期现代奥斯曼政治语言中爱与同情心的社会意义以及文化重要性。我声称，同情心是一种社会建构和政治情感，在历史和文化上具有重要意义，是建立统治和从属政治关系的工具。