Table of Contents

1. Introduction Suraiya Faroqhi; Part I. An Expanding Empire: 2. The Ottomans, 1451–1603: a political history Kate Fleet; 3. Ottoman expansion in Europe, c.1453–1606 Palmira Brummett; 4. Ottoman expansion in the east Ebru Boyar; 5. Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean Kate Fleet; 6. Ottoman expansion in the Red Sea Salih Ozbaran; Part II. Government, Economic Life and Society: 7. Government, administration and law Colin Imber; 8. The Ottoman government and economic life Murat Cizakca; 9. Ottoman armies and warfare Geza David; 10. Religious institutions, policies and lives Gilles Veinstein; 11. Ottoman population Suraiya Faroqhi; Part III. Culture and the Arts: 12. Intellectual life Gottfried Hagen; 13. The visual arts Cigdem Kafescioglu; 14. The making of a literary tradition Selim Kuru.

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Volume 2 examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603.

About the Author

Suraiya N. Faroqhi is Professor of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her publications include The Ottoman Empire: A Short History (2004), Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans (2009) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839 (2006). Kate Fleet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in Ottoman History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (2006), A Social History of Istanbul, co-authored with Ebru Boyar (2010) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 1: Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 (2009).

Reviews

'With helpful maps, a chronology and glossary, and a superbly detailed bibliography of primary sources and secondary literature, this volume does not disappoint in terms of its overall quality … will be of great use for many years to come.' Michael Talbot, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies