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A fascinating exploration of everyday life in premodern Istanbul. In Surviving Istanbul, Suraiya Faroqhi takes the reader to seventeenth- and eight...

It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were first-class and second class subjects. Among ...

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permis...