Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Ottoman Empire and Europe -- Part One Ottoman Palestine -- King Solomon or Sultan Süleyman? -- The Renovations of Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839) in Jerusalem -- Ottoman Intelligence Gathering during Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt and Palestine -- A Note on 'Aziz (Asis) Domet: A Pro-Zionist Arab Writer -- Part Two Ottoman Egypt and the Fertile Crescent -- Un territoire « bien gardé » du sultan? Les Ottomans dans leur vilâyet de Basra, 1565-1568 -- Egyptian and Syrian Sufis Viewing Ottoman Turkish Sufism: Similarities, Differences, and Interactions -- Growing Consciousness of the Child in Ottoman Syria in the 19th Century: Modes of Parenting and Education in the Middle Class -- Part Three Ottoman Jews and the Surrounding Communities -- Retour sur les privilèges des Alamanoğlu: Une lignée juive ottomane à travers les siècles -- Of Orphans, Marriage, and Money: Mating Patterns of Istanbul's Jews in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Urban Encounters: The Muslim-Jewish Case in the Ottoman Empire -- Part Four Social History of the Ottoman Lands -- Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period -- The Last Imaret? An Imperial Ottoman Firman from 1308/1890 -- Prof. Amnon Cohen-List of Publications -- Bibliography -- Index.