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Lowry, Heath W. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2003. This work is a recent important interpretation of the early
Ottoman state.
Stavrides, Theoharis. The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand
Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelović. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001. A biography of
Mahmud Pasha, this book attempts to reconstruct his origins and activity.

Notes

. Adni [Mahmud Pasha], “Divan,” f. 30r.
. For information on the various forms of recruitment of the slaves of the Porte (kapıkulu)
in the early Ottoman state, see Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300– 1650 , 128–142.
. İnalcık, “Ottoman Methods of Conquest,” 112–122.
. Necipoğlu, Architecture, Ceremonial and Power.
. Lowry, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, 115–130.
. Neşri, Kitâb-i cihan-nümâ, 743.
. S t a v r i d e s , The Sultan of Vezirs, 187–326, 356–396.
. Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs, 73–93.
. I bid.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.
. Taşköprüzade, Şakaɇik Tercümesi, 176–177.
. See, e.g., Ibn-i Kemāl, Tevârih-i Âl-i Osman, 113.
. Letter, April 21, 1458, Archivio Sforzesco, Carteggio [Correspondence] 650, Milan State
Archives, Milan (my translation).
. Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs, 93–100.
. Lambros, Ecthesis Chronica and Chronicon Athenarum, 26.
. Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs, 86–90.
. Âşıkpaşazâde, Die altosmanische Chronik des ɇšikpašazâde, 133 (my translation).
. Kafadar, Between Two Worlds, 138–150.
. Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs, 220–234.
. Ibid.
. Instructions from the Council of Ten to Leonardo Boldù (superintendent of Albania),
January 1473, Consiglio dei Dieci [Council of Ten], Misti [Mixed], 17, fol. 222r, Venice State
Archives, Venice.
. Stavrides, The Sultan of Vezirs, 220–234.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.