A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The City, The Semt and the Mahalle -- THE MAHALLE AND THE SEMT -- THE "ISLAMIC CITY" -- THE KASAP ILYAS MAHALLE -- FLUIDITY AND IMPRECISION -- SOURCES AND ISSUES -- 1. The Contours of a Local Identity -- LOCAL IDENTITY: THE FORMATIVE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- MAHALLE TOPOGRAPHY: BOUNDARIES AND LANDMARKS -- HOUSES AND GARDENS -- STREETS AND DEAD ENDS -- THE POPULATION AND THE INHABITANTS OF A PERIPHERAL MAHALLE -- KASAP ILYAS' HIGH STREET: "BUTCHERS' ROAD" -- FIRE AND BRIMSTONE -- 2. Power and Local Administration in Kasap Ilyas: Tanzimat and After -- THE IMAM AND HIS CONGREGATION -- THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL POWER: THE CASE OF AZIZ MAHMUD EFENDI -- A CASE OF PEACEFUL TRANSITION: IMAM AND MUHTAR IN KASAP ILYAS -- THE ADMINISTERED BODY: EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES -- 3. Migration and Urban Integration: The Arapkir Connection -- THE FORMATION OF A MIGRANT SHELTER IN KASAP ILYAS: ISPANAKCI VIRANESI AND THE ARAPKIRLIS -- FRUIT VENDORS AND CIVIL SERVANTS: PROVINCIALS AND ARAPKIRLIS IN 1885 -- LEGAL RESIDENCE: REGIONALISM AND NEPOTISM -- 4. "End of Empire": Portrait of a Neighborhood Community in the Late Nineteenth Century -- FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS -- STREETS, HOUSES, WAREHOUSES, AND SHOPS: RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL AREAS IN KASAP ILYAS -- THE MUHTAR AND HIS MAHALLE: RULER, REPRESENTATIVE, AND MIDDLEMAN -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Volumes in SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.