Contents |
Introduction / Suraiya N. Faroqhi -- An expanding empire -- The Ottomans, 1451-1603: a political history introduction / Kate Fleet -- Ottoman expansion in the Europe, ca. 1453-1606 / Palmira Brummett -- Ottoman expansion in the East / Ebru Boyar -- Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean / Kate Fleet -- Ottoman expansion in the Red Sea / Sal?h özbaran -- Government, economic life and society -- Government, administration and law / Colin Imber -- The Ottoman government and economic life: taxation, public finance and trade controls / Murat ?izak?a -- Ottoman armies and warfare, 1453-1603 / Géza Dávid -- Religious institutions, policies and lives / Gilles Veinstein -- Ottoman population / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Culture and the arts -- The order of knowledge, the knowledge of order: intellectual life / Gottfried Hagen -- The visual arts / ?i?dem Kafes?io?lu -- The literature of Rum: the making of a literary tradition (1450-1600) / Selim S. Kuru. |