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

Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire

This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as

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