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

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xv

Introduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire

Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull 1

Part I. 13th through 15th Centuries | Emergence and Expansion:
From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire

1 The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity

in Late Medieval Anatolia Nicolas Trépanier 21

2 Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier

with Rum in Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives

Zeynep Aydoğan 29

3 The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century:

Draperio and Spinola Families F. Özden Mercan 42

4 From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite:

Mahmud Pasha Angelović and His Christian Circle, 1458–

Theoharis Stavrides 55

5 Interpreting Ottoman Identity with the Historian Neşri

Murat Cem Mengüç 66

6 A Shaykh, a Prince, and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi

Becomes Ottoman Hasan Karataş 79

Part II. 15th through 17th Centuries | Expansion and Cultural Splendor:
The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire

7 Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism and the Construction

of an Ottoman Islam Nabil Al-Tikriti 95

8 Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-Century Aintab Leslie Peirce 108

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