Writing History at the Ottoman Court : Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.

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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Historical Epic Ahvāl-i Sultān Mehemmed (The Tales of Sultan Mehmed) in the Context of Early Ottoman Historiography \ Dimitris Kastritsis -- 2 The Memory of the Mongols in Early Ottoman Historiography \ Baki Tezcan -- 3 Imperialism, Bureaucratic Consciousness, and the Historian's Craft: A Reading of Celālzāde Muṡṫafā's Ṫabak˙ātüʼl-Memālik ve Derecātüʼl-Mesālik \ Kaya Şahin -- 4 Conversion and Converts to Islam in Ottoman Historiography of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries \ Tijana Krstić -- 5 Seeing the Past: Maps and Ottoman Historical Consciousness \ Giancarlo Casale -- 6 From Adam to Süleyman: Visual Representations of Authority in ʿĀrif's Shāhnāma-yi Āl-i ʿOsmān \ Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz -- 7 The Challenge of Periodization: New Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography \ Hakan T. Karateke -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

It answers such questions as how the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others; how they visualized the ideal ruler; how they defined their culture and place in the world; and what the significance of Islam was in their self-definition.