Routledge Worlds / The Ottoman World

1. Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS  2. Nomads and tribes in the Ottoman empire  3. The Ottoman economy in the early imperial age  4. The law of the land  5. A kadi court in the Balkans: Sofia in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries  6. Imarets  7. Sufis in the age of state-building and confessionalization  PART II: OTTOMANS AND OTHERS  8. Royal and other households  9. 'On the tranquillity and repose of the sultan': the construction of a topos  10. Of translation and empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as renaissance go-betweens  11. Ottoman languages  12. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference  13. The Kizilbas of Syria and Ottoman Shiism  14. The reign of violence: the celalis c. 1550-1700  PART III: THE WIDER EMPIRE  15. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period  16. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary  17. The Ottoman frontier in Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries  18. Conquest, urbanization and plague networks in the Ottoman empire, 1453-1600  19. Peripheralization of the Ottoman-Algerian elite  20. On the edges of an Ottoman world: non-Muslim Ottoman merchants in Amsterdam  PART IV: ORDINARY PEOPLE  21. Masters, servants and slaves: household formation among the urban notables of early Ottoman Aleppo  22. Subject to the sultan's approval: seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul  23. Literacy among artisans and tradesmen in Ottoman Cairo  24. 'Guided by the Almighty': the journey of Stephan Schultz in the Ottoman empire, 1752-56  25. The right to choice: Ottoman, ecclesiastical and communal justice in

Christine Woodhead is Teaching Fellow in History at the University of Durham.

"A perfect combination of history and historiography, senior and junior scholars, archives and secondary materials, established trends in the field and sophisticated new methods, this book will be illuminating for both those long familiar with the Ottomans and those encountering the empire for the first time. If one is going to read just one book on the Ottoman Empire, this should be it. A truly impressive achievement." - Alan Mikhail, Yale University, USA.

"A highly useful instructional text that should be engaged by not only those teaching "Middle Eastern history" but those offering courses in European early modern history as well. There are a number of valuable intersections provided by a new generation of scholars who consciously engage "Europe" as part of the Ottoman story. For this reason, the book is probably the best collection of its kind on the early modern period in the market today and should provide a foundation for the next generation of scholars interested in expanding the study of the Ottoman Empire in order to fully engage European and Global history." - Isa Blumi, Leipzig University, Germany and Georgia State University, USA