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In contemporary red cloth. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 154 p., b/w plates. Enderun Mektebi tarihi. Kuran: Fatih Sultan Mehmed. Enderun School was a palace school and boarding school mostly for the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire, which primarily recruited students via devsirme, a system of the Islamization of Christian children for serving the Ottoman government in bureaucratic, managerial, and Janissary military positions. Over the centuries, the Enderun School was fairly successful in creating Ottoman statesmen by drawing among the empire's various ethnic groups and giving them a common Muslim education. The school was run by the "Inner Service" (Enderûn) of the Ottoman palace and had both academic and military purposes. The graduates were expected to devote themselves to government service and be free of links to lower social groups. The Enderun School's gifted education program has been called the world's first institutionalized education for the gifted. Scarce. History of the Enderûn School. First and Only Edition.

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