Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

M. Pinar Emiralioglu is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, USA.

'This book deserves attention both for its theoretical sophistication and for the extraordinary variety of its sources. By bringing together maps and travel narratives with works of cosmography, administrative documents, and even poetry, Emiralioglu has forged an innovative and thought-provoking framework for understanding the Ottomans' views of the world and their own place within it.' Giancarlo Casale, author of The Ottoman Age of Exploration 'Pınar Emiralioglu’s new book skillfully weaves together an analysis of sixteenth-century geographical and cartographical texts in Ottoman Turkish and a synthesis of scholarly work on Ottoman and other early modern imperial cultures.' American Historical Review ’...EmiralioÄŸlu’s book opens a new understanding into Ottoman geographical and cartographical tradition and has the potential of being a source of inspiration for furthering researches on the topic.’ Studies in Ottoman Science

• List of Figures, List of Plates, List of Maps, List of Abbreviations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pronunciation, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Eye of the World: Textual and Visual Repertoires of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 1 Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 2 Mapping and Describing Ottoman Constantinople, 3 Charting the Mediterranean: The Ottoman Grand Strategy, 4 Projecting the Frontiers of the Known World, Epilogue: Ottoman Geographical Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, Bibliography, Index