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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Note on spelling and pronunciation of Turkish
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
State and sultan up to the age of Süleyman: frontier principality to world empire
Ottoman origins and early development
The frontier in Europe: gazi ideology
From gazi emirate to sultanate
Mehmed II and the conquest of Constantinople
Towards Süleyman’s world empire
The Ottoman state as a dynastic empire
Part I: Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Policies and Problems
Introduction
Mediterranean conflict
Ottoman naval policy in the south
Administration in Ottoman Europe
The Balkans
Hungary
Regional administrative variations
European vassals
Conclusion
Politics and socio-economic change in the Ottoman Empire of the later sixteenth century
Central and provincial elites
Trade, wealth and politics
Social tensions within the Ottoman state
Conclusion: the askeri as a class
Part II: Ideal Sultan, Ideal State
Introduction
The sultan as ideal ruler: Ayyubid and Mamluk prototypes
Ideals and legitimation in early Ottoman history
Concepts of the ‘golden age’ in the Renaissance
Perspectives on Süleyman
Ottoman sultans to mid-seventeenth century
Glossary of Ottoman Turkish terms
Bibliographical guide
Maps
Index
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