Christine Isom-Verhaaren is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. She is author of Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century.

Introduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. SchullPart I. 13th-15th Centuries. Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire1. The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia /Nicolas Trépanier2. Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives / Zeynep Aydöan3. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Draperio and Spinola Families / F. Ozden Mercan4. From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite: Mahmud Pasha Angelovi¿ and his Christian Circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides5. Ne¿ri's Cihannüma, an Early Ottoman History Book and the Politics of Ottoman Identity / Murat Cem Mengüç6. A Shaykh, a Prince and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman / Hasan KaratasPart II. 15-17th Centuries. Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire7. Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam / Nabil al-Tikriti8. Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce9. Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer10. Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins11. Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman Dynastic Identity / Christine Isom-VerhaarenPart III. 17th-18th Centuries. Upheaval and Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State12. The Sultan's Advisors and their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling13. Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion, and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteller14. Policing Morality: Crossing Gender Communal Boundaries in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf15. Leaving France, "Turning Turk," Becoming Ottoman: The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber16. Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch / Jane Hathaway17. The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragomanof Cyprus / Antonis HadjikyriacouPart IV. 19th-20th Centuries. Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-state18. Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethno-nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire / Darin Stephanov19. Muslims' Contribution to Science and Ottoman Identity / M. Alper Yalçinkaya20. Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics, and Ottoman Identity in the United States / David Gutman21. Ottomanism among the Greek Orthodox at the End of Empire: The Multiple Loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis22. Zionism in the Era of Ottoman Brotherhood / Michelle U. CamposConnections and Questions to Consider