Heath W. Lowry is Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University and the author of Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Debate to Date

2. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername

3. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription

4. What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans?

5. Toward A New Explanation

6. Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

7. The Last Phase of Ottoman Syncretism¿The Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite

8. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State

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