"Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World" is a collection of articles authored by the students and colleagues of Norman Itzkowitz. The contributors include Engin Deniz Akarly, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, Y. Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford, Vamyk D. Volkan, and others.Norman Itzkowitz was professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University until his retirement in 2001, and published more than a dozen books in three languages focusing on Ottoman history and psychobiography. In recognition of his exceptional...

"Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World" is a collection of articles authored by the students and colleagues of Norman Itzkowitz. The contributors include Engin Deniz Akarly, Karl K. Barbir, Cornell H. Fleischer, Jane Hathaway, Cemal Kafadar, Y. Metin Kunt, Rudi Paul Lindner, Heath W. Lowry, Scott Redford, Vamyk D. Volkan, and others.Norman Itzkowitz was professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University until his retirement in 2001, and published more than a dozen books in three languages focusing on Ottoman history and psychobiography. In recognition of his exceptional...

Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan s book proposes a radical new approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It...