Introduction: Dealing with identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull
Part I. 13th through 15th centuries
Emergence and expansion : from frontier Beylik to cosmopolitan empire
The giving divide : food gifts and social identity in late medieval Anatolia / Nicolas Trépanier
Changing perceptions along the frontiers : the moving frontier with rum in late medieval Anatolian frontier narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan
The Genoese of Pera in the fifteenth century : Draperio and Spinola families / F. Ozden Mercan
From Byzantine aristocracy to Ottoman ruling elite : Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides
Interpreting Ottoman identity with the historian Nesri Murat Cem Menguc
A shaykh, a prince, and a sack of corn : an Anatolian Sufi becomes Ottoman / Hasan Karatas
Part II. 15th through 17th centuries
Expansion and cultural splendor : the creation of a Sunni Islamic empire
Ibn-i Kemal's confessionalism and the construction of an Ottoman Islam / Nabil Al-Tikriti
Becoming Ottoman in sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce
Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer
Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani : a merchant and urban notable of early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins
Mihrimah Sultan : a princess constructs Ottoman dynastic identity / Christine
Part III. 17th through 18th centuries
Upheaval and transformation : from conquest to administrative state
The Sultan's advisors and their opinions on the identity of the Ottoman elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling
Fleeing "the vomit of infidelity" : borders, conversion, and Muslim women's agency / Eric Dursteler
Policing morality : crossing gender and communal boundaries in an age of political crisis and religious controversy / Fariba Zarinebaf
Leaving France, "turning Turk," becoming Ottoman : the transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber
Out of Africa, into the palace : the Ottoman chief harem eunuch / Jane Hathaway
The province goes to the center : the case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis Hadjikyriacou
Part IV. 19th through 20th centuries
Modernity, mass politics, and nationalism : from empire to nation-state
Ruler visibility, modernity, and ethnonationalism in the late Ottoman Empire / Darin N. Stephanov
Muslims' contributions to science and Ottoman identity / M. Alper Yalcinkaya
Migrants, revolutionaries, and spies : surveillance, politics, and Ottoman identity in the United States / David Gutman
A Cappadocian in Athens, an Athenian in Smyrna, and a Parliamentarian in Istanbul : the multiple personae and loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis
Zionism in the era of Ottoman brotherhood / Michelle U. Campos
Connections and questions to consider.
