Osmanlı Araştırmaları : Journal of Ottoman Studies 36 ( North African Studies A Tribute to Rifa'at Abou - El - Haj )_{(North African Studies A Tribute to Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj)}

• Preface– Donald Quataert • 009 Part I – Middle Eastern / North African Studies • Mahmood Ibrahim, Crime and Punishment in Mamluk Damascus • 013-034 • Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Post-Orientalism and Colonialism: A Critical Mapping of Maghribi Studies (1951-2000) • 035-048 • Peter Gran, The Rise of the West or the Rise of the Rich: The Question of an Alternative to Orientalism • 049-056 Part II – Ottoman Studies • Suraiya Faroqhi, Empires before and after the Post-colonial Turn: The Ottomans • 057-076 • Palmira Brummett, Placing the Ottomans in the Mediterranean World: The Question of Notables and Households • 077-096 • Heath W. Lowry, The ‘Soup Muslims' of the Ottoman Balkans: Was There a ‘Western' & ‘Eastern' Ottoman Empire? • 097-134 • Baki Tezcan, Some Thoughts on the Politics of Early Modern Ottoman Science • 135-156 • Rula Jurdi Abisaab, The Shi'ite ‘ulama', Madrasas, and Educational Reform in the Late Ottoman Period • 157-186 • Mustafa Aksakal, Why did the Ottomans Enter a European War in 1914? New Sources, New Views • 187-194 Part III – Post-Ottoman Studies • Christine Philliou, ‘Mad' about Kemalism: An Early Republican Satire • 195-206 • Dina Rizk Khoury, Where are the Ottomans in the Historiography of the Twentieth Century Fertile Crescent? • 207-224 • Janet Klein, Minorities, Statelessness, and Kurdish Studies Today: Prospects and Dilemmas for Scholars • 225-237