Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Publications by Virginia H. Aksan Introduction
Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel Şimşek
Part 1: Ottoman Military and Society
1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age
Linda T. Darling
2 The Trouble with Timārs: An Excursion into a Seventeenth-Century Documentary Landscape
Victor Ostapchuk
3 Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War in the 17th Century
Mark Stein
4 The Azadlu Gunpowder Works: Catalyst for the Military Industry Complexes of Istanbul
Kahraman Şakul
5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826
Fatih Yeşil
6 Armatole Families in the 18th Century Balkans
Molly Greene
7 Under Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)
Veysel Şimşek
8 Shayzar, an Ottoman Fortress-Settlement in Syria
James A. Reilly
Part 2: Ideas, Political Thought, and the Circulation of Knowledge
9 A Cure for the Plague, and Other Prescriptions
Eleazar Birnbaum
10 A Phenomenology of Empire: Ayn Ali on the Ottoman Provinces
Douglas A. Howard
11 Visualizing Ottoman Space: Choiseul-Gouffier and the Passage through Anatolia, 1776
Palmira Brummett
12 On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited
Ethan L. Menchinger and Aysel Yıldız
Part 3: Biography
13 The Law School of Mehmed II in the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century: A Glass Ceiling of the less connected Ottoman Ulema
Baki Tezcan
14 Writing Biography with Limited Sources and Fewer Models: The Case of Hurrem Sultan
Leslie Peirce
15 Tracing the Life of Hüsam Bey: Career Paths in the Sixteenth-century Ottoman Navy
Christine Isom-Verhaaren
16 Eunuchs and the State in the Mamlūk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire: A Comparison
Jane Hathaway
17 “The clever Engineer Koehler”: The Clandestine Activities of George Frederick Koehler (1758–1800) in the Ottoman lands, 1791–93
Caroline Finkel
Part 4: Ottoman Identity and Inter-confessional Relations
18 An Ottoman “Exemption Letter (Mu‘āf-nāme)” Dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite Descendants of Fātima Hātūn, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the Mother of Süleymān the Magnificent: a Document from the National Museum of Lithuania
Colin Heywood
19 Ottoman Brokers in the 18th-Century Levant Trade
Maurits H. van den Boogert
20 The Battle of Ali Hoca Burnu: Framed Privateers, Questionable Loyalties, and a Sultanic Prize Court in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Will Smiley
21 Revisiting the Escalation of Intercommunal Violence in İzmir (1797): “Anti-Greek,” or a More Complex Dynamic?
Feryal Tansuğ
22 Nationality and Sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Iraq
Dina Rizk Khoury
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