Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World Book

	Preface
	Note on spelling and pronunciation of Turkish
	List of abbreviations
	Notes on contributors
	Introduction: State and sultan up to the age of Suleyman: frontier principality to world empire	3
Pt. I	Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Policies and Problems
	Introduction	33
	Mediterranean conflict	39
	Ottoman naval policy in the south	55
	Administration in Ottoman Europe	71
	Politics and socio-economic change in the Ottoman Empire of the later sixteenth century	91
Pt. II	Ideal Sultan, Ideal State
	Introduction	117
	The sultan as ideal ruler: Ayyubid and Mamluk prototypes	122
	Ideals and legitimation in early Ottoman history	138
	Concepts of the 'golden age' in the Renaissance	154
	Perspectives on Suleyman	164
	Ottoman sultans to mid-seventeenth century	191
	Glossary of Ottoman Turkish terms	193
	Bibliographical guide	197
	Maps	201
	Index	208