This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global his

"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times

Here you will find an in-depth treatise covering the political social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Ea