A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century

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x Acknowledgments


Research and Technology, funded by Greece and the European Social Fund of
the European Union under the Operational Program Education and Lifelong
Learning (2007–13 Greek National Strategic Reference Framework).1 For this
project, I was lucky to have an excellent team of collaborators: E. Ekin Tuşalp
Atiyas, post-doctoral researcher (who also authored chapter VI of this book);
Marina Demetriadou, doctoral candidate; Michalis Georgellis, MA student; and
Lemonia Argyriou, technical assistant. Words are not enough to describe how
much I owe to their constant help and assistance; Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas, moreover,
carefully read the first draft of this book and suggested numerous and valuable
remarks and additions. I must also thank the-then director of the Institute for
Mediterranean Studies, Christos Hadziiossif, who constantly encouraged me
to continue with this project ever since I first thought of it, as well as to the
administrative staff of the Institute (Georgia Papadaki, Valia Patramani) and
especially its tireless accountants (Babis Flouris, Antonis Xidianos) for their
support under the difficult circumstances prevailing in 2014–15. I wish to stress
that the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, my home institution, provided
the most creative and friendly environment possible, continuing a tradition
of research in the humanities that often disappears under the pressure of
financial and international constraints; I do hope it will continue to resist and
provide the same steady conditions for serious research in the future.
My postgraduate students during the academic years 2013–14 (Kostis
Kanakis, Ioanna Katsara, Yiannis Polychronopoulos, and Stavros Sfakiotakis)
and 2014–15 (Petros Kastrinakis, Efthymis Machairas, Vuk Masić, Roger Meier,
Rozalia Toulatou, Karmen Vourvachaki, and Dimitris Yagtzoglou) contributed
much, even if it was without their knowledge.
Last but not least, I have to thank my parents for their continuous support
and, of course, my family, Despoina Moschogianni and Anna, for whom the
final months of the composition of this book must have meant a quasi-absence
from almost every aspect of family life. Despoina, moreover, had been insisting
for years that I write this book, although I never really understood why; many
times I would have abandoned this project but for her insistence. Well—here
it is now.


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Ekin Tuşalp Atiyas would like to thank Marinos Sariyannis, Marina
Demetriadou, İzak Atiyas, and İlya Derin Atiyas for making Rethymno a para-
dise for work and fun. She would also like to thank Marinos Sariyannis and
Derin Terzioğlu for their suggestions when writing chapter 6.


1 See also the project website: http://ottpol.ims.forth.gr/.

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