Cem Behar is Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University and the author of many books, including (with Alan Duben) Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family, and Fertility, 1880–1940.

• Preface INTRODUCTION: THE CITY, THE SEMT, AND THE MAHALLE The Mahalle and the SemtThe "Islamic City"The Kasap Ilyas MahalleFluidity and ImprecisionSources and Issues 1: THE CONTOURS OF A LOCAL IDENTITY Local Identity: The Formative Sixteenth CenturyMahalle Topography: Boundaries and LandmarksHouses and GardensStreets and Dead EndsThe Population and Inhabitants of a Peripheral MahalleKasap Ilyas' High Street: "Butchers' Road"Fire and Brimstone 2: POWER AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN KASAP ILYAS: TANZIMAT AND AFTER The Imam and His CongregationThe Benefits of Local Power: The Case of Aziz Mahmud EfendiA Case of Peaceful Transition: Imam and Muhtar in Kasap IlyasThe Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives 3: MIGRATION AND URBAN INTEGRATION, THE ARAPKIR CONNECTION The Formation of a Migrant Shelter in Kasap Ilyas: Ispanakci Viranesi and the ArapkirlisFruit Vendors and Civil Servants: Provincials and Arapkirlis in 1885Legal Residence: Regionalism and Nepotism 4: "END OF EMPIRE": PORTRAIT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Families and HouseholdsStreets, Houses, Warehouses, and Shops: Residential and Commercial Areas in Kasap IlyasThe Muhtar and his Mahalle: Ruler, Representative, Middleman EPILOGUE Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Volumes in the SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East