Table of contents
List of Ilustrations;
List of Maps;
Preface;
Note on Turkish and technicalities;
1. Introduction Christine Woodhead;
PART I: FOUNDATIONS;
2. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire Resat Kasaba;
3. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age Rhoads Murphey;
4. The law of the land Colin Imber;
5. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Rossitsa Gradeva;
6. Imarets Amy Singer;
7. Sufis in the age of state-building and confessionalization Derin Terzioglu;
PART II: OTTOMANS AND OTHERS;
8. Royal and other households Metin Kunt;
9. 'On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan': the construction of a topos Hakan Karateke;
10. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as renaissance go-betweens Tijana Krstic;
11. Ottoman languages Christine Woodhead;
12. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference Baki Tezcan;
13. The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism Stefan Winter;
14. The reign of violence: the celalis c. 1550-1700 Oktay OEzel;
PART III: THE WIDER EMPIRE;
15. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period Dariusz Kolodziejczyk; 16. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary Gabor Agoston;
17. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Nelida Fuccaro;
18. Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire, 1453-1600 Nukhet Varlik;
19. Peripheralization of the Ottoman-Algerian elite Tal Shuval;
20. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam Ismail Hakki Kadi;
PART IV: ORDINARY PEOPLE;
21. Masters, servants and slaves: household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo Charles Wilkins;
22. Subject to the sultan's approval: seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul Suraiya Faroqhi;
23. Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo Nelly Hanna;
24. 'Guided by the Almighty': the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman empire, 1752-56 Jan Schmidt;
25. The right to choice: Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in Ottoman Greece Eugenia Kermeli;
26. Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects Basak Tug;
27. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800 Tulay Artan;
PART V: LATER OTTOMANS 28. The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East Ariel Salzmann;
29. The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c.1600-1850 Michael Ursinus;
30. Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world: conflict or partnership? Ali Yaycioglu;
31. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis Ehud Toledano;
Glossary;
References