Crimean Khan Şahin Giray on the Pages of Foreign Scholarly Literature
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2026-53-2-315-321Keywords:
Crimean Khanate, Şahin Giray, Ottoman historiography, Russian Empire, Western European literatureAbstract
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis into the representation of the figure of the last Crimean Khan, Şahin Giray (1745–1787), in foreign (Ottoman, Western European, and American) historiography. The work covers a significant chronological period, from contemporaries of the events of the second half of the 18th century to scholarly works of the early 21st century, and identifies key models of foreign perspectives, their transformation, and political conditioning. A significant achievement of foreign researchers is the examination of Şahin Giray's figure within a broader context. His fate is analyzed through the prism of the crisis of the Ottoman model of governance. The conducted analysis of foreign scholarly literature allows for a number of conclusions characterizing the main trends and research approaches in foreign historiography.
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