Ottoman History Readings

Agoston, Gabor, "A Flexible Empire: Authority and its Limits on the Ottoman Frontiers." International Journal of Turkish Studies 9.1-2 (2003): 15-31.

Agoston, Gabor. Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

“Islamic Law in Asia Minor (Turkey) and the Ottoman Empire” in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009), vol. 6.

Akarlı, Engin Deniz. “The Tangled Ends of an Empire: Ottoman Encounters with the West and Problems of Westernization--an Overview.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26, no. 3 (2006): 353-366.

Andrews, Walter and Kalpakli, Mehmet. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society.

"Beyond Culturalism? An Overview of the Historiography on Ottoman Science in Turkey," in Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu et. al. Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire. Tumhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2003.

Bowles, Edmund A. “The impact of Turkish military bands on European court festivals in the 17th and 18th centuries.” Early Music 34, no. 4 (n.d.): 533 -560.

Casale, Giancarlo. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Casale, Giancarlo, "Global Politics in the 1580s: One Canal, Twenty Thousand Cannibals, and an Ottoman Plot to Rule the World." Journal of World History 18 (2007): 267-296.

Faroqhi, Suraiya. The Ottoman Empire and the World around It. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Finkel, Caroline, “ ‘The Treacherous Cleverness of Hindsight’: Myths of Ottoman Decay,“ in William Dalrymple, ed. Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 148-174.

Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Green, Molly. “Beyond the Northern Invasion.” Past and Present no. 174 (2002): 42-71.

Hanna, Nelly, “Literacy and the ‘Great Divide” in the Islamic World, 1300-1800,” Journal of Global History, 2007, vol. 2 p. 175-194.

Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam, volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, and volume 3: The Gunpowder Empire and Modern Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Islamoglu-Inan, Huri, ed. The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1987.

Kafadar, Cemal, "Self and Others: The Diary of a Dervish in Seventeenth Century Istanbul and First-Person Narratives in Ottoman Literature," Studia Islamica, No. 69 (1989), pp. 121-150.

Matar, Nabil. “Confronting Decline in Early Modern Arabic Thought.” Journal of Early Modern History 9, no. 1-2 (2005): 51-78.

Matar, Nabil. “Confronting Decline in Early Modern Arabic Thought.” Journal of Early Modern History 9, no. 1-2 (2005): 51-78.

Matar, Nabil, “Europe through Eighteenth-Century Moroccan Eyes." Alif: Travel Literature of Egypt and the Middle East. 26 (2006).

Necipoğlu, Gülru, "Challenging the Past: Sinan and the Competitive Discourse of Early Modern Islamic Architecture," Muqarnas, Vol. 10, Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar (1993), pp. 169-180.

Necipoglu, Gulru, "From International Timurid to Ottoman: A Change of Taste in Sixteenth-Century Ceramic Tiles," in Oleg Grabar (ed.), Muqarnas VII: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990.

Necipoglu, Gulru, "Framing the Gaze in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Palaces," Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23, Pre-Modern Islamic Palaces (1993), pp. 303-342. (Download pdf here)

Necipoglu, Gulru, "An Outline of Shifting Paradigms in the Palatial Architecture of the Pre-Modern Islamic World," Ars Orientalis, Vol. 23, Pre-Modern Islamic Palaces (1993), pp. 3-24.

Hanna, Nelly. “Incorporation and the Textile Industry in 19th Century Egypt.” in La France et l’Egypte a l’epoque des vice-rois, 1805-1882, edited by Daniel Panzac and Andre Raymond, 149-162. Cairo: Institut Francais D’Archeologie Orientale, 2002.

Åževket Pamuk, "Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 225-247.

Perlin, Frank. “Growth of Money Economy and Some Questions of Transitions in Late Pre-Colonial India.” Social Scientist 11, no. 10 (October 1983): 27-38.

Sajdi, Dana, “Decline, its Discontents and Ottoman Cultural History: By Way of Introduction,” in Dana Sajdi, ed. Ottoman tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007, pp. 1-39.

Saliba, George, "Greek Astronomy and the Medieval Arabic Tradition," American Scientist, Jul/Aug 2002. Vol. 90, Issue 4; p. 360.

Sisman, Cengis. "Cortijo de Sevi:Kültür Mirasi Sabatay Sevi’nin Evi’nin GeçmiÅŸi, Bugünü ve GeleceÄŸi," Künye: Toplumsal Tarih, Sayı 196, (Nisan 2010): 14-25.

Sisman, Cengiz. “In search of the Name: A History of Naming Ottoman/Sabbatian Communities,” in Studies on Istanbul and beyond: the Freely Papers, ed. Robert G. Ousterhout, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2007: 37-53.

Streusand, Douglas E., Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. Boulder: Westview Press, 2011.

Tezcan, Baki, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Voll, John Obert, “Foundations for Renewal and Reform: Islamic Movements in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” in The Oxford History of Islam, ed. John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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