Jane Hathaway is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her previous publications include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlis (1997); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (2003); Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (2006); and The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (2018).

• Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800; Chapter 1: Land and Peoples; Chapter 2: The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands; Chapter 3: The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration; Chapter 4: Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 5: Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 6: Religious and Intellectual Life; Chapter 7: Urban Life and Trade; Chapter 8: Rural Life; Chapter 9: Non-Normative Populations I: Non-Muslims; the Poor and Disabled; Chapter 10: Non-Normative Populations II: Women, Non-Elite Slaves, Eunuchs; Chapter 11: Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century (and Afterward); Conclusion: Transformations under Ottoman Rule

'I am very pleased to see a new edition of The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800, an essential text for courses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and the early modern Middle East. In addition to introducing readers to the political structure and developments in the region, this clearly written and engaging text offers rich descriptions of the social and cultural lives of a wide range of people in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ​Hathaway's revisions include the careful incorporation of recent scholarship and restructuring of several chapters; her expansion of the discussion about ​non-normative populations, which is now two chapters, is especially welcome.'Corinne Blake, Rowan University, USA.