An Approach to Ottoman History -- PART ONE ISTANBUL-ACTIVITIES OF DIFFERENT ECUMENICAL C OMMUNITIES IN THE OTTOMAN CAPITAL -- The Development of Ottoman Governmental Institutions in the 14th Century: A Reconstruction (Linda Darling) -- La repentance de Bayezid Ier et d'Émir Süleyman (Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr) -- Über Urkundenfälschung im Osmanischen Reich (Hans Georg Majer) -- Les Capitulations Franco-Ottomanes de 1536 sont-elles encore c ontroversables? (Gilles Veinstein) -- Metropolis and Necropolis: The Cultivation of Social Status among the Jews of Istanbul in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Minna Rozen) -- The Istanbul Fur Market in the 18th Century (Markus Koller) -- Some Records on Price Controls in Istanbul at the Beginning of the 19th Century (Mehmet Ali Beyhan) -- PART TWO ECONOMIC CROSS- BORDER ECUMENICAL COMMUNITIES IN THE PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE -- Customs Duties and Treasury Incomes in the vilayet of Temesvár: An Early Account-Book of Becskerek and Becse (Géza Dávid) -- Textile Trade in Bulgaria in the Mid-19th Century and the Gümüsgerdan Family (Neriman Ersoy-Hacisalihoglu) -- Articles artisanaux originaux provenant des terres bulgares et destinés à l'exposition de Paris en 1867 (Stoyanka Kenderova) -- Flooding the Ottoman Market: Marketing History Related Topics (Yavuz Köse) -- Unpaid Ottoman Coal Miners during the early 20th Century (Donald Quataert) -- PART THREE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ECUMENICAL COMMUNITIES IN THE OTTOMAN PERIPHERY -- The Pilgrimage as International Relations: Japanese Pilgrims to Mecca between 1909-1938 (Selcuk Esenbel) -- Une page de roman historique: Le récit par Evliya Çelebi de la campagne de Szigetvár (1566) (Nicolas Vatin) -- A Croat's View of Ottoman Bosnia: the Travelogue of Matija Mazuranic from the Years 1839-40 (Tatjana Paic-Vukic and Ekrem Causevic).

Glances at the Greek Orthodox Priests in the Seventeenth Century (Elizabeth A. Zachariadou) -- Life in Sarajevo in the 18th Century (according to Mulla Mustafa's mecmua) (Kerima Filan) -- Konjic (Koniçe, Belgradcik), From Hamlet on the Highway to Muslim Town (Machiel Kiel) -- Old Players and New in the Transition of Cyprus to Ottoman Rule (Vera Costantini) -- PART FOUR THE MEDITERRANEAN-ECUMENICAL COMMUNITIES BETWEEN POLITICAL POWERS -- Maritime Trade and International Relations in the 16th Century M editerranean: The Case of the Ship Girarda (1575-1581) (Benjamin Arbel) -- La Lingua Franca: un outil de communication (Daniel Panzac) -- On the Edge of Empires: Dubrovnik and Anavarin between Istanbul and Venice (Fariba Zarinebaf) -- "Des melons pour la cour du Sancak beg": Split et son arrière-pays ottoman à travers les registres de compte de l'administration vénitienne dans les années 1570 (Oliver Jens Schmitt) -- The Moral Economies of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean. Preliminaries to the Study of Cross-Cultural Migration during the Long 16th Century (Ariel Salzmann) -- List of Suraiya Faroqhi's Publications -- Index.