City in the Ottoman Empire

Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the modern Middle East and director of the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, in conjunction with a professorship of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has worked on modern Middle Eastern historiography, on Arab networks in the Indian Ocean realm and currently conducts research on the urban history of Jeddah. Malte Fuhrmann is a historian at the Orient Institute Istanbul. He has published extensively on German colonialism and on Mediterranean port cities. Nora Lafi is a historian of the Ottoman Empire at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. She is currently working on a research project on urban rules and norms in Cairo, Aleppo and Tunis. Florian Riedler is a historian with a specialisation for the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Among his research interests are migration and urban history.

• 1. Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond 2. The Ottoman Urban Governance of Migrations and the Stakes of Modernity 3. The Ottoman City Council and the Beginning of the Modernization of Urban Space in the Balkans 4. Foreigners in Town: Urban Immigration and Local Attitudes in the Romanian Principalities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 5. Mobility and Governance in Early Modern Marseilles 6. Pearl Towns and Early Oil Cities: Migration and Integration in the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf 7. Migration and the State: On Ottoman Regulations Concerning Migration Since the Age of Mahmud II 8. Governance in Transition: Competing Immigrant Networks in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt 9. Armenian Labour Migration to Istanbul and the Migration Crisis of the 1890s 10. Immigration into the Ottoman Territory: The Case of Salonica in the Late Nineteenth Century 11. Migrant Builders and Craftsmen in the Founding Phase of Modern Athens 12. The City and the Stranger: Jeddah in the 19th Century 13. ‘I would rather be in the Orient’. European Lower Class Immigrants into the Ottoman Land