Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition

"Nowhere else can one find so learned and yet so lucid a description of the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire presented in such a small package." —Richard L. Chambers, University of Chicago

This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-century confrontation with a rapidly modernizing Europe. Itzkowitz delineates the fundamental institutions o...