The Arab Lands in the Ottoman Era

Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Abbreviations
	Contributors
	Illustrations
	Introduction
	Endnotes
1 Some Arabic Sources concerning the First Ottoman Occupation of the Yemen (945-1045/1538-1636)
	Endnotes
2 The Ottoman Conquest of Yemen: The Ismaili Perspective
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3 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the Spice Trade
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4 The “Mamluk Breaker” Who Was Really a Kul Breaker: A Fresh Look at Kul Kiran Mehmed Pasha, Governor of Egypt 1607-1611
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5 “He was Crude of Speech”: Turks and Arabs in the Hagiographical Imagination of Early Ottoman Egypt
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6 The Scope of Curiosity: Memorabilia in Russian Pilgrims’ Narratives of the Middle East (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
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7 Moroccan Ulema and Pilgrims in Cairo: An Aspect of Intellectual Exchange in the Arab-Ottoman World of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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8 Immigrant Tradesmen as Guild Members, or, the Adventures of Umisian Fez-Sellers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
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9 Syria’s “Underdevelopment” under Ottoman Rule:
Revisiting an Old Theme in the Light of New Evidence
from the Court Records of Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century
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10 The Syrian Economy at the Turn of the Century: The Testimony of al-Muqtabas, 1906-1914—An Overview
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	11 Ottoman Musical Forms: The Sama'i, Bashraf and Longa in the Arab World and Beyond Kay Hardy Campbell
	Endnotes
	Interview Subjects
	Bibliography
	Index