The Ottoman Empire : : Myths, Realities and ‘Black Holes’ (Contributions in Honor of Colin Imber) / / ed. by Oktay Özel, Eugenia Kermeli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ambros, Edith Gülçin,; Balim, Çiğdem,; Brummett, Palmira,; Darling, Linda,; Gradeva, Rossitsa,; Heywood, Colin,; Hopwood, Keith,; Inan, Kenan,; Kermeli, Eugenia,; Lowry, Heath W.,; Morris, Rosemary,; Panzac, Daniel,; Peirce, Leslie,; Radushev, Evgeni,; Schmidt, Jan,; Vatin, Nicolas,; Veinstein, Gilles,; Woodhead, Christine,; Yasamee, F. A. K.,; Özel, Oktay,
• HerausgeberIn: Kermeli, Eugenia,; Özel, Oktay,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (383 p.)

This volume in honour of Colin Imber (University of Manchester) contains essays by many leading Ottoman historians.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- COLIN IMBER, HISTORIAN OF THE OTTOMAN STATE -- COLIN IMBER: PUBLICATIONS -- Contributions -- THE EPOPTÊS THOMAS AT WORK -- NICAEA AND HER EASTERN NEIGHBORS -- SOME THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING OF GAZA AND AKIN IN EARLY OTTOMAN USAGE -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN ANATOLIA: OBSERVATIONS ON AMASYA FROM 15th to 17th CENTURIES -- ON THE SOURCES OF TURSUN BEY'S TARIH-I EBU'L-FETH -- THE FIRST OTTOMAN CONQUEST OF BUDA IN 1526 AND THE HISTORY OF A JEWISH FAMILY -- IN SEARCH OF THE HAREM SEXUAL CRIME AND SOCIAL SPACE IN OTTOMAN ROYAL LAW OF THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES -- SCRIBAL CHAOS? OBSERVATION ON THE POST OF RE 'IS ULKUTTAB IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- MEDITERRANEAN BORDERLANDS: EARLY ENGLISH MERCHANTS IN THE LEVANT -- LE STATUT DE MUST A'MIN, ENTRE DROIT ET POLITIQUE -- ON ZIMMIS AND CHURCH BUILDINGS: FOUR CASES FROM RUMELI -- COMMENT ON GARDE UN SECRET -- DE LA GUERRE DE CHYPRE A LA GUERRE DE CRETE : UN ENTRACTE EN MEDITERRANEE (1572-1645) -- CHILDREN TREATED AS COMMODITY IN OTTOMAN CRETE -- THE SHIFTING CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHYHYRYN (£EHRlN) CAMPAIGN (1089/1678) ACCORDING TO THE OTTOMAN LITERARY SOURCES, AND THE PROBLEM OF THE OTTOMAN CALENDAR -- A COSSACK ADOPTED BY THE FORTY SAINTS: AN ORIGINAL OTTOMAN STORY IN THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY -- OTTOMAN CARTOON MAPS: IMAGINING SPACE, IDENTITY, AND NATION IN THE ISTANBUL POPULAR PRESS, 1908-1913 -- OTTOMAN WAR PLANNING AND THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN OF OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1912 -- WRITING ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES: AITMATOV'S THE DAY LASTS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS