If there is any aspect of Ottoman history that is considered to be well understood, it is the timar system, the system through which the revenues of the empire and the oversight of peasant agriculture were awarded to ...

The present study serves as an addendum to my article in a previous issue of this journal, which gave figures from the icmal defterleri on timar awards in the sixteenth century. This addendum carries the story into the ...

Istanbul achieved its eminence well before the Ottoman conquest as Constantinople, the second capital of the Roman Empire and after the fall of Rome its foremost city. It was the goal of the early Islamic jihad, the kızıl ...