Studies in Ottoman History and Law / / Colin Imber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Imber, Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

A collection of historical essays by Colin Imber, professor of Turkish at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NAVY OF SÜLEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT -- THE COSTS OF NAVAL WARFARE: THE ACCOUNTS OF HAYREDDIN BARBAROSSA'S HERCEG NOVI CAMPAIGN IN 1539 -- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE OTTOMAN FLEET AFTER THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO 1571-1572 -- THE PERSECUTION OF THE OTTOMAN SHI'ITES ACCORDING TO THE MÜHIMME DEFTERLERI, 1565-1585 -- THE WANDERING DERVISHES -- THE MALAMATIYYA IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- A NOTE ON "CHRISTIAN" PREACHERS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- FOUR DOCUMENTS FROM JOHN RYLANDS TURKISH MS. No. 145 -- ZINA IN OTTOMAN LAW -- THE STATUS OF ORCHARDS AND FRUIT-TREES IN OTTOMAN LAW -- "INVOLUNTARY" ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE AND ITS SOLUTION IN OTTOMAN LAW -- WHY YOU SHOULD POISON YOUR HUSBAND: A note on liability in hanafi law in the Ottoman period -- WOMEN, MARRIAGE AND PROPERTY: MAHR IN THE BEHÇETÜ'L-FETAVA OF YENISEHIRLI 'ABDULLAH -- A NOTE ON PLINY'S IRESIA -- PAUL WITTEK'S "DE LA DÉFAITE D'ANKARA À LA PRISE DE CONSTANTINOPLE" -- THE OTTOMAN DYNASTIC MYTH -- THE LEGEND OF OSMAN GAZI -- 'OTHMÄN I