In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Nükhet Varlık, Robert Zens
pp. 1-2
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President’s Note

Amy Singer
pp. 3-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.02
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Introduction: Chasing the Ottoman Early Modern

Virginia H. Aksan
pp. 7-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.03
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“Early Modern” and the Lifespan of Empires

Virginia H. Aksan
pp. 11-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.04
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Marking Time on the Early Modern: Kings, Conquests, Commune, Continuum

Palmira Brummett
pp. 14-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.05
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Ottoman Islamic Law and “Early Modernity”

Guy Burak
pp. 17-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.06
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Invented Tradition and the Ottoman World View

Giancarlo Casale
pp. 20-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.07
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On Ottoman Early Modernity: Scattered Thoughts Pretending to be a Position Statement

Boğaç Ergene
pp. 24-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.08
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Periodizations in Crisis: Early Modernity and Ottoman Imperial Historiography

Heather Ferguson
pp. 27-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.09
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Chasing Monsters?

John-Paul A. Ghobrial
pp. 31-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.10
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Early Modernity: An Idea in Need of Greater Depth

James Grehan
pp. 34-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.11
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The Late Modern Origins of Early Modern Governance

Antonis Hadjikyriacou
pp. 37-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.12
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A Preliminary User’s Guide to the “Early Modern” Tool in Ottomanist Scholarship

Jane Hathaway
pp. 41-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.13
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Before Exclusivism: Was the Early Modern an Axial Age?

Douglas A. Howard
pp. 45-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.14
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Imperial Limits and Early Modernity: Borderland Clients of the Ottoman Empire and the “Well-Protected Dominions”

Güneş Işıksel
pp. 49-51
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Provincial and/or Regional Histories and the Question of Temporality

Dina Rizk Khoury
pp. 52-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.16
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Early, Yet Already Late: Literary Musings on Historical Questions

Selim Kuru
pp. 55-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.17
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Who counts? Ottomans, Early Modernity, and Trans-Imperial Subjecthood

E. Natalie Rothman
pp. 58-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.18
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Cultural and Political Synchronicity vs. Economic and Social Diversity: What Global “Early Modernity” Does Not Explain

Marinos Sariyannis
pp. 61-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.19
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Reading Modernity in (and out) of the Ottoman Empire

Nir Shafir
pp. 64-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.20
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The Disenchantment of Sufism, the Rationalization of Sunni Islam, and Early Modernity

Baki Tezcan
pp. 67-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.21
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Ottoman Early Modern

Ali Yaycıoğlu
pp. 70-73
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Epilogue 1: Early Modern Ottomans

Joanna Innes
pp. 74-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.23
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Epilogue 2: The Limits of Knowledge Production as a Subversive Practice: The “Early Modern” in Ottoman Studies

Beshara Doumani
pp. 80-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.24
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From Zaviye to Mosque: Aspects of the Social Evolution in the Early Ottoman Balkans in Late Fourteenth-Century Gümülcine/Komotini

Panagiotis Kontolaimos
pp. 87-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.25
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The Evolution of Grain Procurement Practices in Ottoman Macedonia, 1774–1838

Seven Ağır
pp. 110-145
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Çiftlik Formation and Transformation of Land Ownership in the Kazas of Serfice, Çaharşenbe, and Eğri Bucak (1820–1850)

Dimitrios Lamprakis
pp. 146-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.27
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Art Exhibitions in Munich and Istanbul (1909–18): Cultural Events as Part of German Imperialist Policies

Funda Berksoy
pp. 173-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.28
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Changing Reality through Fiction: A Cognitive Approach to Late Ottoman Literature

Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu
pp. 205-226
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When the Devil Tells the Story: Ekphrastic Detective Fiction in Orhan Pamuk’s Novel My Name is Red

Remus Racolța
pp. 227-243
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Treasures of Knowledge: an Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4), ed. by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer (review)

Konrad Hirschler
pp. 244-249
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The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne by Yonca Köksal (review)

Uğur B. Bayraktar
pp. 249-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.32
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Secularism and State Religion in Modern Turkey: Law, Policy-Making and the Diyanet by Emir Kaya (review)

Kristin E. Fabbe
pp. 252-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.7.1.33
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