Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

4 | Living in the Ottoman Realm This type of reductionism also privileges confessionalism—the identifica- tion of individuals or ...

Introduction|5 did not exist in the first place but that the process of observation has transformed them into objects of study. ...

6 | Living in the Ottoman Realm service. This loyalty Hayreddin displayed by submitting Algiers to Selim I and ruling it as his ...

Introduction|7 Part I. th through th Centuries: Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire Part I ...

8 | Living in the Ottoman Realm commercial activities without much disruption. Their flexibility and adaptability to new rulers ...

Introduction|9 of Selim I (r. 1512–1520) and Süleyman (r. 1520–1566). The expansion brought new opportunities and challenges to ...

10 | Living in the Ottoman Realm position as a sacred site and spiritual center for Christians was no less crucial in determinin ...

Introduction | 11 and expanding notions of Ottoman identity both within and outside the empire. Some Ottoman subjects fled the e ...

12 | Living in the Ottoman Realm by societal and political forces to impose a specific type of social and political or- der on O ...

Introduction | 13 to the formation of communal institutions was not a straight one; it was one full of twists and turns, with no ...

14 | Living in the Ottoman Realm discourse felt the need to note that not all Muslim scientists were Arabs. Hence, the effort to ...

Introduction | 15 but this commitment was somewhat compromised by their support for Zionism. In the end only David lived to see ...

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pa rt I th through th Centuries Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire The Ottoman polity emer ...

18 | Living in the Ottoman Realm of the fourteenth century, but Ottoman expansion was temporarily halted by the powerful conquer ...

13th through 15th Centuries | 19 history includes many diverse peoples who inhabited Anatolia and the Bal- kans. The diversity o ...

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The Giving Divide Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia Nicolas Trépanier People who lived in late medieval A ...

22 | The Giving Divide constituted according to Islamic law (vakıfs), whose format is standard enough to consider them the close ...

Trépanier|23 For the visitors coming and going, they made feasts, they cooked foods, and at the time when they established a sou ...