![]() ![]() ![]() The advanced student might profitably consult the exhaustive state-of-the-profession survey by Halil İnalcık with Donald Quataert, An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1914 (Cambridge, 1994). Its lack of notes and bibliography also limits its value. Justin McCarthy also offers a readable survey that perhaps over-stresses the Turkishness of the Ottomans in The Ottoman Turks: an introductory history to 1923 (Harlow, Essex, 1997). ![]() A briefer introduction that covers much the same ground is Norman Itzkowitz, Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition (Chicago, 1972). Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber (London, 1973). The most thorough and reliable remains Halil İnalcık, The Ottoman Empire: the classical age, 1300–1600, trans. Entries that the reader may find particularly useful include “ghulām,” “Imtiyāzāt,” “Istanbul,” and “Maktuc.” There are several English-language surveys of early modern Ottoman history. The most important reference work for Ottoman terms remains The encyclopaedia of Islam, new edn (Leiden, 1960–), which is now available in an excellent CD-Rom edition. ![]()
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