This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

Second edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.

This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as

"A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times