Books
âOttoman History Reader: A Sourcebook,â Cambridge University Press, edited manuscript submitted March 15, 2023, reviews 8/2 (forthcoming).
OrtadoÄuâda Sosyal Adalet ve Siyasal Ä°ktidarın Tarihi (Istanbul: Alfa, 2022), Turkish translation of A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East.
Gelir ArtıÅı ve Kanuna Uygunluk â Osmanlı Ä°mparatorluÄunda Vergi Toplanması ve Maliye Yönetimi 1560â1660 (Istanbul: Alfa, 2019), Turkish translation of Revenue- Raising and Legitimacy.
The Janissaries of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century, or, How Conquering a Province Changed the Ottoman Empire, Otto Spies Memorial Series, vol. 6 (Berlin: EG Verlag, 2019).
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice from Mesopotamia to Globalization (London: Routledge Press, 2013).
Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560â1660 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
âThe Enactment of Justice in the Laws (Kanun) of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (1451â1481),â article for Expectations of Justice and Political Power in the Islamicate World (600â1500), ed. Petra Sijpesteijn, Leiden, June 8â10, 2022. Revised and sent 8/22 (in press).
âForewordâ to Mustafa Dehqan and Vural Genç, The Tahrîr Registers of Bidlîs: Ottoman Exposition of a Kurdish Livâ, submitted 6/2022 (in press).
âFinancial Reporting from the Ottoman Syrian Provinces: A Study on Provincial âBudgets,â the Income Side,â in âBuyurdum ki â¦.â â The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer, edited by Hülya Ãelik, Yavuz Köse, and Gisela Procházka-Eisl, in collaboration with Julia Fröhlich. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023.
âKanun and Kanunname in Ottoman Historiography,â Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 9, no. 1 (2022, pub. 2023): 151â77.
âFrom Border Province to Imperial Hub: The Geopolitical Transition of Syria from Mamluk to Ottoman Rule,â keynote chapter in The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the Sixteenth Century 2, ed. Stephan Conermann and Gül Åen (Göttingen: V&R unipress/Bonn University Press, 2022), 25â88.
âResource Extraction in a Newly Conquered Province: Ottoman Syria in the Mid- Sixteenth Century,â in Life on the Ottoman Border: Essays in Honour of Nenad MoaÄanin, ed. Vjeran Kursar (Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet SveuÄiliÅ¡ta u Zagrebu, Katedra za turkologiju Odsjeka za hungarologiju, turkologiju i judaistiku i Odsjek za povijest, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/9789531759847), 91â103.
âIstanbul Elites and Political Writing,â in A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, ed. Shirine Hamadeh and ÃiÄdem KafescioÄlu (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 697â716.
âNotes on Ottoman Avarız Taxation from the Ahkâm Registers of 1501 and 1698,â and âHalil Bey, the Ottoman Archives, and Me,â in âWith Halil Ä°nalcık at the Quads of the University of Chicago: A Commemoration by His Students,â ed. Linda T. Darling and Fariba Zarinebaf, special issue of Archivum Ottomanicum 38 (2021): 61â80.
âCrime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age,â in A Historian of Ottoman War, Peace, and Empire: A Festschrift in Honor of Virginia Aksan, ed. Frank Castiglione and Veysel ÅimÅek (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 13â34.
âOrdering the Ottoman Elite: Ceremonial Lawcodes of the Late Seventeenth Century,â Turcica 50 (2019): 355â82.
âOttoman Political Thought and the Critique of the Janissaries,â in Ottoman Political Thought and Practice, ed. Marinos Sariyannis, Halcyon Days in Crete (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2019), 117â36.
âOttoman Political Thought: Toward a Revised History,â in Ottoman Political Thought and Practice, ed. Marinos Sariyannis, Halcyon Days in Crete (Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2019), 9â15.
âHistoricizing the Ottoman Timar System: Identities of Timar Holders, 14thâ17th Centuries,â Turkish Historical Review 8 (2017): 145â73.
âIstanbul and Damascus: Officials and Soldiers in the Exercise of Imperial Power (c.1550â1575),â in Osmanlı Ä°stanbulu IV, ed. Feridun M. Emecen, Ali Akyıldız, and Emrah Safa Gürkan (Istanbul: 29 Mayıs Ãniversitesi and Ä°stanbul BüyükÅehir Belediyesi, 2017), 313â38.
âInvestigating the Fiscal Administration of the Arab Provinces after the Ottoman Conquest of 1516,â in The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Stephan Conermann and GÅ«l Åen (Göttingen: V&R, Bonn University Press, 2016), 147â76.
âThe Sultanâs Advisors and Their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite,â in Living in the Ottoman Realm: Sultans, Subjects, and Elites, ed. Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016), 171â81.
âJustice and Power in the Ottoman Empire: Translations of Two Imperial Adaletnameler (Justice Decrees),â in Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travellersâ Tales, Sultans, and Scholars since the Eighth Century, A Festschrift for Robert Dankoff, ed. William Hickman and Gary Leiser (London: Routledge, 2015), 79â98.
âOttoman Customs Registers (Gümrük Defterleri) as Sources for Global Exchange and Interaction,â Review of Middle East Studies 49.1 (2015): 1â22. doi: 10.1017/rms.2015.63.
âNasîhatnâmeler, Ä°cmal Defterleri, and the Timar-Holding Ottoman Elite in the Late Sixteenth Century â Part II, Including the Seventeenth Century,â Osmanlı AraÅtırmaları 45 (2015): 13â35.
âIstanbul and the Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Elite: The Significance of Place,â in Osmanlı Ä°stanbulu II (Istanbul: 29 Mayıs Ãniversitesi and Ä°stanbul BüyükÅehir Belediyesi, 2014), 89â97.
ââThe Vicegerent of God, from Him We Expect Rainâ: The Pre-Islamic State in Early Islamic Political Culture,â Journal of the American Oriental Society 134.3 (2014): 407â29.
âPolitical Literature and the Development of an Ottoman Imperial Identity,â Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 1.1â2 (2014): 53â69, and Guest Editor for papers on Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Identities.
âNasîhatnâmeler, Ä°cmal Defterleri, and the Timar-Holding Ottoman Elite in the Late Sixteenth Century,â Osmanlı AraÅtırmaları 43 (2014): 193â226.
âMirrors for Princes in Europe and the Middle East: A Case of Historiographical Incommensurability,â in East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Transcultural Experiences in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013), 223â42.
âThe Mediterranean as a Borderland,â Review of Middle East Studies 46.1 (June 2012): 54â63.
âOsmanlı Sınırında Hristiyan-Müslüman EtkileÅimi: Erken Dönem Osmanlı Tarihinde Gaza ve YerleÅim,â in Osmanlı HoÅgörüsü, ed. Kemal H. Karpat ve Yetkin Yıldırım (Istanbul: TimaÅ Yayınları, 2012), 135â62.
âOttoman Turkish: Written Language and Scribal Practice, 13th to 20th Centuries,â in Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, ed. Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2012), 171â95.
âReformulating the Gazi Question: When Was the Ottoman State a Gazi State?â Turcica 43 (2011): 13â53.
âMurder and Mayhem in Ottoman Rumeli: Local Political Relations in Eighteenth- Century Macedonia,â in Popular Protest and Public Participation in the Ottoman Empire: Studies in Honor of Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Eleni Gara, M. Erdem Kabadayi, and Christoph K. Neumann (Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2011), 177â95.
âChristian-Muslim Interaction on the Ottoman Frontier: Gaza and Accommodation in Early Ottoman History,â in The Ottoman Mosaic: Exploring Models for Peace by Re-Exploring the Past, ed. Kemal Karpat and Yetkin Yildirim (Seattle: Cune Press, 2010), 103â18.
âThe Circle and the Tree: A Vision of Justice in the Middle East,â in Historical Dimensions of Islam: Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys, ed. James E. Lindsay and Jon Armajani (Princeton: Darwin Press, 2009), 151â82.
âThe Development of Ottoman Governmental Institutions in the Fourteenth Century: A Reconstruction,â in Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community: Essays in Honour of Suraiya Faroqhi, ed. Vera Costantini and Markus Koller (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008), 17â34.
âPolitical Change and Political Discourse in the Early Modern Mediterranean World,â Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38.4 (Spring 2008): 505â31.
âIslamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire, and the Circle of Justice,â in Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With Special Reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, ed. Said Amir Arjomand (London: Hart Publishing, 2008), 11â32.
âOttoman Accounting Prehistory,â in Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Accounting Historians, ed. Oktay Güvenli, 3 vols. (Istanbul: 2008), 3: 2421â33.
âProlegomena to a Study of Ottoman Administrative Documents and Ilhanid Precedents,â in Enjeux politiques, économiques et militaires en Mer Noire (XIVeâXXIe siècles): Ãtudes à la mémoire de Mihail Guboglu, ed. Faruk Bilici, Ionel Cândea, and Anca Popescu (Braïla: Musée de Braïla Ãditions Istros, 2007), 467â82.
âSocial Cohesion (Asabiyya) and Justice in the Late Medieval Middle East,â Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 (2007): 329â57.
âMedieval Egyptian Society and the Concept of the Circle of Justice,â Mamluk Studies Review 10 (2006): 1â17.
âPublic Finances: The Role of the Ottoman Centre,â in The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603â1838, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 118â31.
âOsmanlı Maliye Tarihinde Gelir-Toplama ve MeÅruiyetâ [Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy in Ottoman Fiscal History], in Osmanlı Maliyesi Kurumlar ve Bütçeler, 2 vols. (Istanbul: Osmanlı Bankası ArÅiv ve AraÅtırma Merkezi, 2006), 1: 39â50.
âThe Prince, the Just Sultan, and the Coming of the Early Modern Era in the Mediterranean,â in The Mediterranean World: The Idea, the Past and Present, ed. Eyüp Ãzveren, Oktay Ãzel, Süha Ãnsal, and Kudret EmiroÄlu (Istanbul: Ä°letisim, 2006), 47â61.
âMediterranean Borderlands: Early English Merchants in the Levant,â in The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities and âBlack Holesâ, ed. Eugenia Kermeli and Oktay Ãzel (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2006), 173â88.
âPersianate Sources on Anatolia and the Early History of the Ottomans,â Studies on Persianate Societies 2 (2004): 126â44.
âInnovations in Document Study,â review essay, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 38 (2004): 61â64.
ââDo Justice, Do Justice, for That is Paradiseâ: Middle Eastern Advice for Indian Muslim Rulers,â Comparative Studies on South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 22 (2002): 3â19.
âThe Renaissance and the Middle East,â in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 55â69.
âAnother Look at Periodization in the Ottoman Empire,â Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 26 (2002): 19â28.
âThe Ottomans and the Renaissance,â The Turks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 3:939â 46. âContested Territory: Ottoman Holy War in Comparative Perspective,â Studia Islamica 91 (2000):133â63.
âFinance Documents and Ottoman History: Some Goals for the New Millennium,â in The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, 4 vols. (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Dergisi, 2000), vol. 3, 136â41.
âRethinking Europe and the Islamic World in the Age of Exploration,â The Journal of Early Modern History 2 (1998): 221â246.
âThe Syrian Provinces in Ottoman Eyes: Three Historiansâ Representations of Bilad al-Sham,â in ARAM: The Mamluks and the Early Ottoman Period in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology 9â10 (1997â1998): 347â55.
âOttoman Provincial Treasuries: The Case of Syria,â in Mélanges Halil SahillioÄlu, in Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies no. 15â16 (1997): 103â110.
âOttoman Fiscal Administration: Decline or Adaptation?â The Journal of European Economic History 26 (1997): 157â179.
âOttoman Politics through British Eyes: Paul Rycautâs The Present State of the Ottoman Empire,â The Journal of World History 5 (1994): 71â97.
âThe Finance Scribes and Ottoman Politics,â in Decision Making in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Caesar E. Farah (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press and University Press of America, 1993), 89â100.
âOttoman Salary Registers as a Source for Social and Economic History,â Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 14 (1990): 13â33.
Minor, Encyclopedia, Translations
âAn Order for the Assessment of the Avarız Tax in the Seventeenth Century,â and several other translations of Ottoman documents for Reading Ottoman History: A Sourcebook, ed. Linda T. Darling and Matthew Lubin, Cambridge University Press, submitted 3/22, reviews 8/23 (forthcoming).
âRichard L. Chambers: A Life in Turkish Studies,â Review of Middle East Studies 51.2 (August 2017): 328â38.
âRichard L. Chambers 1929â2016,â Review of Middle East Studies 51.1 (February 2017): 161â63.
âHalil Ä°nalcık 1916?â2016,â Review of Middle East Studies 51.1 (February 2017): 163â65.
âAn Investigation of Official Corruption in Ottoman Egypt: Processes and Documents of Ottoman Administration,â Istoriya (Sofia, Bulgaria) 24.4 (2016): 343â53.
Revised entries, Kemal, Namek; Tanzimat; in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed.Richard Martin (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004, 2nd ed., Jan. 2016).
âBudget,â âFiscalité,â and âOrigine des Ottomans,â in Dictionnaire de lâEmpire ottoman, ed. François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein (Paris: Fayard, 2015), 182â85, 452â57, and 880â84.
âCustoms Dues,â in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 72â73.
âOttomans (1299â1924),â in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Wadad al-Kadi, Devin Stewart, and M. Qasim Zaman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 402â3.
âBÄjâ and âCircle of Justice,â in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Leiden: Brill, 2011 and 2012), 83â84, 104â9.
âIslam,â in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); E-reference edition: htpp://www.oxfordwomenworldhistory.com/entry?entry=t248.e520.
âPrens, Adil Sultan ve Akdenizâde Modern ÃaÄın BaÅlangıcı,â in Akdeniz Dünyası: DüÅünce, Tarih, Görünüm, ed. Eyüp Ãzveren, Oktay Ãzel, Süha Ãnsal, and Kudret EmiroÄlu (Istanbul: Ä°letiÅim, 2006), 45â57.
National Geographicâs Concise History of the World: An Illustrated Time Line, ed. Neil Kagan (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006); consultant, writing and editing entries on the Middle East from prehistory to the present.
âRevisiting the Ottoman Gaza,â in IXth International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2006), 15â24.
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), entries: Erbakan, Necmettin; Jevdet Pasha; Kemal, Namek; Political Organization; Refah Partisi; Tanzimat.
The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2003), entries: Abd Allah b. Saba, Alp Arslan, Aurangzeb, Babur, Baybars, Chagatai, Genghis Khan, Ghurids, al- Mustansir, Pasha, Suleyman the Magnificent.
âOsmanlılar ve Rönesans,â Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye, 2002), 11: 840â47.
âMalî Belgeler ve Osmanlı Tarihi: Yeni Binyıl İçin Bazı Hedefler,â in Osmanlı (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 2000).
âOttoman Provincial Treasuries in Syria,â Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies 17â 18 (1998): 35â37.
âCapitulations,â in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 257â60.
âA Treatise on Accounting Methods by an Official of the Ottoman Financial Administration in the Sixteenth Century,â Third International Congress on the Economic and Social History of Turkey, Proceedings (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1989), 123â26.
âAvarız Tahriri: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ottoman Survey Registers,â Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 10 (1986): 23â26.
Book Reviews
Jo van Steenbergen, ed., Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia: Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 52.4 (2022): 640â42.
Double Book Review, Marinos Sariyannis, A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century, and Hüseyin Yılmaz, Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 141.4 (2021): 970â73.
Nikolay Antov, The Ottoman âWild Westâ: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 52 (2020): 577â79.
Oliver Jens Schmitt, ed., The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans (Vienna: Ãsterrichisch Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016), in Slavic Review 77.1 (2018): 216â18.
Yuval Ben-Bassat, Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine, in Mediterranean Historical Review 32.2 (2017): 270â73.
Emine Fetvacı, Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014):424â26.
Haim Gerber, State and Society in the Ottoman Empire, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 54.2 (2011): 275â77.
Rudi Paul Lindner, Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory, in Journal of Central Eurasian Studies 2 (May 2011): 105â8.
Hülya Canbakal, Society and Politics in an Anatolian Town: âAyntab in the 17th Century, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 41 (2007): 188â89.
Ali Ãaksu, ed., Proceedings, International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman World, in Journal of Early Modern History 11 (2007): 543â45.
Antony Black, The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present, in Journal of Early Modern History 11 (2007): 546â48.
Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century, in MIT-EJMES 7 (Spring 2007): 206â8.
Dick Douwes, The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression, and Eugene Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire, in The Historian 68 (2006): 813â16.
Åevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 27 (2004, pub. 2006): 122â28.
A Wall of Silence (video), in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2001): 274â75. Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, in History: Reviews of New Books 30 (2001): 34.
Dina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540â1834, in The American Historical Review 106 (2001): 1910.
Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman Institutions, in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35 (2001):93â94.
Godfrey Goodwin, Topkapi Palace: An Illustrated Guide to its Life and Personalities, in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (2000): 240â41.
Comité International dâÃtudes Pre-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Essays in Ottoman Civilization, in The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (2000): 111â12.
Judith E. Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, in History: Reviews of New Books 28.1 (Fall 1999): 34.
Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State, in The Historian 61 (1999): 957â58.
Daniel Goffman, Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642â1660, in The Middle East Journal 53 (1999): 322â23.
Murat Ãizakça, A Comparative Evolution of Business Partnerships: The Islamic World & Europe, with Special Reference to the Ottoman Archives, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999): 298â300.
Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923, in History: Reviews of New Books 27.2 (Winter 1999): 83.
âAta Malik al-Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World-Conqueror, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 32 (1998).
Donald Quataert, ed., Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500â1950, and Donald Quataert, Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998): 60â62.
Metin Kunt and Christine Woodhead, eds., Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World, in History: Reviews of New Books 25.2 (Winter 1997): 86.
Virginia H. Aksan, An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700â1783, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 19, no. 2 (Fall 1995): 68â71.
Leila Tarazi Fawaz, An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860, in MESA Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 235â36.
Cyril E. Black and L. Carl Brown, eds., Modernization in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 19 (1995): 115â17.
Rifaâat Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 25 (1993): 118â20; 26 (1994): 555â56.
Sydney Nettleton Fisher and William Ochsenwald, The Middle East: A History, in Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 16, no. 2 (September 1992, issued April 1993): 255â57.
Mohammed Sawaie, ed., Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in the United States and Canada: A Bibliographic Guide with Annotations, in MELA Notes 40 (Winter 1987): 21â22.