Essays In Ottoman History

PrefacePart 1 Historiograhy1 Periods in Ottoman History2 How to Read 'Ashık Pasha-zade's HistoryPart 2 Sultans and Policies1 'Osman Ghazi's Siege of Nicaea and The Battle of Bapheus2 Mehmed The Conqueror (1432-1481) and His Time3 Decision making in the Ottoman State4 The Rüznamçe Registers of the Kadıasker of Rumeli as preserved in the İstanbul Müftülük Archieves5 Islamization of Ottoman laws on land and land tax6 Tax collection, embezzlement and bribery in Ottoman financesThe Status of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch under the Ottomans7 The Status of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch under the OttomansPart 3 Society and EconomyIslam in the Ottoman Empireİstanbul: an Islamic CityOttoman Galata, 1453-1553Greeks in Ottoman Economy and Finances, 1453-1500"Arab" Camel Drivers in Western Anatolia in the Fifteenth CentruyThe Question of the Closing of the Black Sea under the Ottomans