Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a comp

Reproduction of the original: The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville

Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.

This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects. The conventional wisdom was that the Arabs were

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution