Suraiya Faroqhiis a professor of history at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her focus is on Ottoman social history of the early modern period, especially women, artisan production, the use of objects as historical sources, as well as urban life and cross-cultural linkages, her most recent publications are, A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts ( I. B. Tauris, 2016), and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires: Social History in the Early Modern World(I.B. Tauris, 2019).
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Entering the field
3. Locating Ottoman sources
4. Rural life as reflected in archival sources: selected examples
5. European sources on Ottoman history: the travellers
6. On the rules of writing (and reading) Ottoman historical works
7. Perceptions of empire: viewing the Ottoman Empire throught general histories
8. Conclusion
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