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

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9 Making Jerusalem Ottoman Amy Singer 123

10 Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban

Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo Charles Wilkins 137

11 Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman

Dynastic Identity Christine Isom-Verhaaren 150

Part III. 17th through 18th Centuries | Upheaval and
Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State

12 The Sultan’s Advisors and Their Opinions on the Identity

of the Ottoman Elite, 1580–1653 Linda T. Darling 171

13 Fleeing “the Vomit of Infidelity”: Borders, Conversion,

and Muslim Women’s Agency Eric Dursteler 182

14 Policing Morality: Crossing Gender and Communal Boundaries

in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy

Fariba Zarinebaf 194

15 Leaving France, “Turning Turk,” Becoming Ottoman:

The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval

into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha Julia Landweber 209

16 Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief

Harem Eunuch Jane Hathaway 225

17 The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis

Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus Antonis Hadjikyriacou 239

Part IV. 19th through 20th Centuries | Modernity, Mass Politics,
and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-State

18 Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethnonationalism in the

Late Ottoman Empire Darin N. Stephanov 259

19 Muslims’ Contributions to Science and Ottoman Identity

M. Alper Yalçınkaya 272

20 Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics,

and Ottoman Identity in the United States David Gutman 284