Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-266) and index.
Norman Itzkowitz as a historian and a mentor / Baki Tezcan -- Norman Itzkowitz : a representative list of publications -- Eighteenth century Ottoman realities / Norman Itzkowitz -- pt. 1, The pre- and early Ottoman periods. Words, books, and buildings in Seljuk Anatolia / Scott Redford. Bapheus and Pelekanon / Rudi Paul Lindner. Religious v. ethnic identity in fourteenth-century Bithynia : Gregory Palamas and the case of the Chionai / Ruth A. Miller. The role of the Bursa Palace in preparing bread for the Ottoman sultans / Heath W. Lowry -- pt. 2, The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Shadows of shadows : prophecy in politics in 1530s Istanbul / Cornell H. Fleischer. A prince goes forth (perchance to return) / I. Metin Kunt. Dispelling the darkness : the politics of "race" in the early seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire in the light of the life and work of Mullah Ali / Baki Tezcan. The exalted lineage of Ridvan Bey revisited : a reinterpretation of the spurious genealogy of a grandee in Ottoman Egypt / Jane Hathaway -- pt. 3, The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Janissaries and other riffraff of Ottoman Istanbul : rebels without a cause? / Cemal Kafadar. One marker of Ottomanism : confiscation of Ottoman officials' estates / Karl K. Barbir. The institution of the Ottoman embassy and eighteenth-century Ottoman history : an alternative view to Göçek / Berrak Burçak. Conflict and collaboration : rethinking Kurdish-Armenian relations in the Hamidian Period, 1876-1909 / Janet Klein. Daughters and fathers : a young Druze woman's experience (1894-1897) / Engin Deniz Akarli -- pt. 4, The twentieth century. In pursuit of elusive glory : Enver Pasha's role in the Pan-Islamic and the Basmachi movement / Şuhnaz Yılmaz. Marshal Fevzi Çakmak's family and education : a formation process / Nilüfer Hatemi. Our women treasures : early Republican Turkish women and their public identity / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu. On Kemal Atatürk's psychoanalytic biography / Vamik D. Volkan