The Early Modern Ottomans : Remapping the Empire Book

List of illustrations vii

Notes on contributors ix

Acknowledgments xi

A note on transliteration and the use of foreign words xii

Introduction: Situating the early modern Ottoman world Virginia H. Aksan Daniel Goffman 1

Part I Mapping The Ottoman World 13

1 Imagining the early modern Ottoman space, from world history to Piri Reis Palmira Brummett 15

Part II Limits To Empire 59

2 Negotiating with the Renaissance state: the Ottoman Empire and the new diplomacy Daniel Goffman 61

3 Information, ideology, and limits of imperial policy: Ottoman grand strategy in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry Gábor Ágoston 75

4 The Ottomans in the Mediterranean Molly Greene 104

5 Military reform and its limits in a shrinking Ottoman world, 1800-1840 Virginia H. Aksan 117

Part III Evocations of Sovereignty 135

6 Genre and myth in the Ottoman advice for kings literature Douglas A. Howard 137

7 The politics of early modern Ottoman historiography Baki Tezcan 167

Part IV Boundaries of Belonging 199

8 Inside the Ottoman courthouse: territorial law at the intersection of state and religion Najwa Al-Qattan 201

9 The material world: ideologies and ordinary things Leslie Peirce 213

10 Urban voices from beyond: identity, status and social strategies in Ottoman Muslim funerary epitaphs of Istanbul (1700-1850) Edhem Eldem 233

11 Who is a true Muslim? Exclusion and inclusion among polemicists of reform in nineteenth-century Baghdad Dina Rizk Khoury 256

Part V Aesthetics Of Empire 275

12 Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul in the eighteenth century Shirine Hamadeh 277

Bibliography 313

Index 353