Table of Contents
Author's Note vii
Maps x
Introduction: The White Castle 1
1 The Beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan 14
2 The Sultan and His Converted Slaves: Murad I 34
3 Resurrecting the Dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II 52
4 Conquering the Second Rome: Mehmed II 72
5 A Renaissance Prince: Mehmed II 96
6 A Pious Leader Faces Enemies at Home and Abroad: Bayezid II 113
7 Magnificence: From Selim I to the First Ottoman Caliph, Suleiman I 130
8 Sultanic Saviours 159
9 The Ottoman Age of Discovery 165
10 No Way Like the 'Ottoman Way' 188
11 Harem Means Home 203
12 Bearded Men and Beardless Youths 229
13 Being Ottoman, Being Roman: From Murad III to Osman II 240
14 Return of the Gazi: Mehmed IV 269
15 A Jewish Messiah in the Ottoman Palace 287
16 The Second Siege of Vienna and the Sweet Waters of Europe: From Mehmed IV to Ahmed III 301
17 Reform: Breaking the Cycle of Rebellion from Selim III to Abdülaziz I 328
18 Repression: A Modern Caliph, Abdülhamid II 363
19 Looking Within: The Ottoman Orient 381
20 Saving the Dynasty from Itself: Young Turks 395
21 The Genocide of the Armenians and the First World War: Talat Pasha 422
22 The End: Gazi Mustafa Kemal 453
Conclusion: The Ottoman Past Endures 462
Acknowledgments 469
List of Ottoman Rulers and Their Reigns 470
Notes 472
Index 525