Table of Contents

Preface.
Note on spelling and pronunication of Turkish.
List of abbreviations. Notes on contributors.
Introduction. Metin Kunt, State and sultan up to the age of Süleyman: frontier principality to world empire.

Part I: 16th century Ottoman policies and problems.
Mentin Kunt, Introduction.
Ann Williams, Mediterranean conflict.
Salih Össbaran, Ottoman vaval policy in the south.
Géza Dávid, Adminsitration in Ottoman Europe.
Suraiya Faroqhi, Politics and socio-economic change in the Ottoman Empire of the later 16th century.

Part II: Ideal Sultan, Ideal State.
Christine Woodhead, Introduction.
P M Holt, The sultan and legitimation in early Ottoman history.
Peter Burke, Concepts of the `golden age' in the Renaissance.
Christine Woodhead, Perspectives on Süleyman.
List of maps.

About the Author

I M Kunt, Christine Woodhead