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• Cover
• Half-title
• Series-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Maps
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Note on usage
• Chronological table of events
• The Ottoman House through 1687 (dates are regnant)
• 1 Introduction: Ottomancentrism and the West
• Europe viewed from afar
• The great spiritual divide
• The Euro-Ottoman symbiosis
• Istanbul: the middle city
• Converging communities
• A changing image in Europe
• Part 1 State and society in the Ottoman world
• Kubad’s formative years
• 2 Fabricating the Ottoman state
• Imagined beginnings
• The early Ottoman state
• The making of an imperial household
• Early conquests and the redesign of Ottoman society
• Fashioning a new civilization
• Creating an imperial center: the winning of Constantinople
• Kubad in Istanbul
• 3 A seasoned polity
• The imperial household
• The Ottoman slave culture
• Religious elites
• Other elites
• Non-elites
• A world governed by exceptions
• Kubad at the Sublime Porte
• 4 Factionalism and insurrection
• Süleyman as personifier of empire
• Süleyman as “king of kings”
• The Ottomans and the Christian schism of 1517
• Crisis at the turn of the seventeenth century
• Renovation at the turn of the seventeenth century
• If not decline, then what?
• Part 2 The Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean and European worlds
• Kubad in Venice
• 5 The Ottoman–Venetian association
• Uneasy harmony
• Rounding out the western flank
• A seaborne ascendancy
• Setback in the west
• Occupying an Aegean island
• Venetian Cyprus subdued
• A grand reversal
• The Venetian drift eastward
• Kubad between worlds
• 6 Commerce and diasporas
• The non-Muslim in the Ottoman world
• Dealing with aliens
• Venice’s city-state rivals
• Venice’s Ottoman challengers
• The Ottomans in Renaissance diplomacy
• Kubad ransomed
• 7 A changing station in Europe
• International trade in the changing fabric of Ottoman society
• Commerce in the Ottoman borderlands
• Ottoman cities, new and old
• Proselytizing in the Ottoman world
• A new-style conflict
• The Ottoman Empire and the making of Europe
• 8 Conclusion. The Greater Western World
• Glossary
• Suggestions for further reading
• GENERAL TEXTS
• FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRE
• THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT AND EUROPE
• EARLY MODERN OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
• THE COMPETITION FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
• NON-MUSLIM OTTOMANS AND EUROPE
• THE ALIEN IN OTTOMAN SOCIETY
• OTTOMAN STUDIES AND SOURCES
• Index