Ottoman War and Peace

Frank Castiglione, Ph.D. (2016), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Ethan L. Menchinger, Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Lecturer in the History of the Islamic World at the University of Manchester. He has published numerous articles on the Ottoman Empire and is author of the monograph The First of the Modern Ottomans: the Intellectual History of Ahmed Vâsıf (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Veysel Şimşek, Ph.D. (2015), McMaster University, is lecturer in Turkish at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Previously, he held post-doctoral fellowships at McGill and Yale. He has taught and published on the political, social, and military history of the Ottoman Empire.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Publications by Virginia H. Aksan Introduction Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel ŞimşekPart 1: Ottoman Military and Society1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden AgeLinda T. Darling 2 The Trouble with Timārs: An Excursion into a Seventeenth-Century Documentary LandscapeVictor Ostapchuk3 Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War in the 17th CenturyMark Stein4 The Azadlu Gunpowder Works: Catalyst for the Military Industry Complexes of IstanbulKahraman Şakul5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826Fatih Yeşil6 Armatole Families in the 18th Century BalkansMolly Greene7 Under Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)Veysel Şimşek8 Shayzar, an Ottoman Fortress-Settlement in SyriaJames A. ReillyPart 2: Ideas, Political Thought, and the Circulation of Knowledge9 A Cure for the Plague, and Other PrescriptionsEleazar Birnbaum10 A Phenomenology of Empire: Ayn Ali on the Ottoman ProvincesDouglas A. Howard 11 Visualizing Ottoman Space: Choiseul-Gouffier and the Passage through Anatolia, 1776Palmira Brummett12 On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate RevisitedEthan L. Menchinger and Aysel YıldızPart 3: Biography13 The Law School of Mehmed II in the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century: A Glass Ceiling of the less connected Ottoman UlemaBaki Tezcan14 Writing Biography with Limited Sources and Fewer Models: The Case of Hurrem SultanLeslie Peirce15 Tracing the Life of Hüsam Bey: Career Paths in the Sixteenth-century Ottoman NavyChristine Isom-Verhaaren16 Eunuchs and the State in the Mamlūk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire: A ComparisonJane Hathaway17 “The clever Engineer Koehler”: The Clandestine Activities of George Frederick Koehler (1758–1800) in the Ottoman lands, 1791–93Caroline FinkelPart 4: Ottoman Identity and Inter-confessional Relations18 An Ottoman “Exemption Letter (Mu‘āf-nāme)” Dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite Descendants of Fātima Hātūn, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the Mother of Süleymān the Magnificent: a Document from the National Museum of LithuaniaColin Heywood19 Ottoman Brokers in the 18th-Century Levant TradeMaurits H. van den Boogert20 The Battle of Ali Hoca Burnu: Framed Privateers, Questionable Loyalties, and a Sultanic Prize CourtWill Smiley21 Revisiting the Escalation of Intercommunal Violence in İzmir (1797): “Anti-Greek,” or a More Complex Dynamic?Feryal Tansuğ22 Nationality and Sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman IraqDina Rizk KhouryIndex