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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 Reşat 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 Terzioğlu  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 Krstić  11. Ottoman languages Christine Woodhead  12. Ethnicity, race, religion and social class: Ottoman markers of difference Baki Tezcan  13. The Kızılbaş of Syria and Ottoman Shiism Stefan Winter  14. The reign of violence: the celalis c. 1550-1700 Oktay Özel  PART III: THE WIDER EMPIRE  15. Between universalistic claims and reality: Ottoman frontiers in the early modern period Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  16. Defending and administering the frontier: the case of Ottoman Hungary Gábor Ágoston  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 Nükhet Varlık 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 Başak Tuğ  27. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800 Tülay 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 Yaycıoğlu  31. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis Ehud Toledano  Glossary  References