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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 Kızılbaş 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 Ottoman Greece  26. Ottoman women as legal and marital subjects  27. Forms and forums of expression: Istanbul and beyond, 1600-1800  PART V: LATER OTTOMANS  28. The old regime and the Ottoman Middle East  29. The transformation of the Ottoman fiscal regime c.1600-1850  30. Provincial power-holders and the empire in the late Ottoman world: conflict or partnership?  31. The Arabic-speaking world in the Ottoman period: a socio-political analysis