Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking Ottoman imperialism : modernity, violence and the cultural logic of Ottoman reform / Ussama Makdisi
  • Practices of integration
  • center-periphery relations in the Ottoman empire / Jens Hanssen
  • Acre; the first instance of changing times / Thomas Philipp
  • Foreign presence and perception of Ottoman rule in Beirut / Leila Fawaz
  • Housing the foreign: a European's exotic home in late nineteenth-century Beirut / Ralph Bodenstein
  • Ottoman provincial towns in the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Christoph K. Neumann
  • Images of imagined worlds / Stefan Weber
  • The Cairo cab drivers and the strike of 1907 / John Chalcraft
  • Waqf only in name, not in essence / Astrid Meier
  • Centralized authority and local decisional power / Randi Deguilhem
  • Ottoman photography: recording and contributing to modernity / Wolf-Dieter Lemke
  • Mersin: the formation of a Tanzimat city in southern Turkey / Filiz Yenisehirlioglu
  • The central hall house; regional commonalities and local specificities / Anne Mollenhauer
  • As-Sayyid Abū'l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī in Aleppo / Julia Gonnella
  • Nineteenth-ccentury Baghdad through Ottoman eyes / Christoph Herzog
  • Ordering urban space in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1914
  • The Ottoman emprie and Yemeni politics in the Sancaq of Taʻizz, 1911-1918
  • Rethinking Ottoman imperialism : modernity, violence and the cultural logic of Ottoman reform / Ussama Makdisi
  • Practices of integration
  • center-periphery relations in the Ottoman empire / Jens Hanssen
  • Acre; the first instance of changing times / Thomas Philipp
  • Foreign presence and perception of Ottoman rule in Beirut / Leila Fawaz
  • Housing the foreign: a European's exotic home in late nineteenth-century Beirut / Ralph Bodenstein
  • Ottoman provincial towns in the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Christoph K. Neumann
  • Images of imagined worlds / Stefan Weber
  • The Cairo cab drivers and the strike of 1907 / John Chalcraft
  • Waqf only in name, not in essence / Astrid Meier
  • Centralized authority and local decisional power / Randi Deguilhem
  • Ottoman photography: recording and contributing to modernity / Wolf-Dieter Lemke
  • Mersin: the formation of a Tanzimat city in southern Turkey / Filiz Yenisehirlioglu
  • The central hall house; regional commonalities and local specificities / Anne Mollenhauer
  • As-Sayyid Abū'l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī in Aleppo / Julia Gonnella
  • Nineteenth-ccentury Baghdad through Ottoman eyes / Christoph Herzog
  • Ordering urban space in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1914
  • The Ottoman emprie and Yemeni politics in the Sancaq of Taʻizz, 1911-1918