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remaining interstices, to remind the local population and foreign powers of the
enduring Ottoman presence.
Suggestions for Further Reading
Cohen, Amnon. A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents
from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVI Century). Philadelphia: Center for Judaic Studies,
University of Pennsylvania, 1994. This book provides translations and summaries
of original legal documents from the sixteenth-century court of the Muslim judge
of Jerusalem.
Grabar, Oleg. The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1996. The discussion in this book of the first six centuries of the
Muslim presence in Jerusalem is based on Islamic art and architecture.
Khalidi, Rashid. “Transforming the Face of the Holy City: Political Messages in the
Built Topography of Jerusalem.” Jerusalem Quarterly File 3 (Winter 1999): 21–29.
A historian analyzes in this article the politics of building in the modern era of
Jerusalem’s history.
Peacock, A. C. S. “The Ottoman Empire and Its Frontiers.” In The Frontiers of the Ot-
toman World, edited by A. C. S. Peacock, 1–27. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
- This chapter is a conceptual introduction to the topic of Ottoman frontiers
throughout time and space.
Raymond, A. “The Ottoman Conquest and the Development of the Great Arab Towns.”
International Journal of Turkish Studies 1, no. 1 (1979–1980): 84–101. This article
critically examines assumptions about the impact of the Ottoman conquest.
Notes
. Grabar, The Shape of the Holy, 50.
. Necipoğlu, “From International Timurid to Ottoman,” 154.
. Endowment deed (waq fiyya) of t he Hasek i Su lta n i ma ret i n Jer usa lem, Tu r. 4 , fol. 49–52 ,
Khalidi Library, Jerusalem (my translation).