V. L. Ménage (1920-2015) was Professor of Turkish at SOAS, London.

Colin Imber was formerly a Reader in Turkish at the University of Manchester.

The Islamic Months
The Ottoman Sultans, c1300-1687
List of Illustrations
Preface
Maps
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Chapter I: The Dynasty: Legitimation and Titulature

Section 1: The Assertions of the Chroniclers

1. The voice of the dervishes: the dream of Ertogrul
   a. From the Anonymous Chronicles
   b. From the Tevarikh-i Al-i Oman
2. The voice of the gazis: how Osman became an independent ruler
3. The voice of the ulema: how Osman became an independent ruler
   a. Kitab-i Cihan-nüma about why Osman is called gazi
   b. Kitab-i Cihan-nüma about how drum and standard came to Osman
4. Pagan Turkish tradition: the genealogy of the Ottoman sultans
   a. Yazicioglu 'Ali on the line of Osman
   b. Sükrullah on the line of Osman
5. Conflation in the Oxford Anonymous Chronicle

Section 2: Titulature: Caliphal Claims

1. Inscription of Kayosrev II (1236-46) on the sea walls at Antalya
2. Inscription on the tomb of the Aydin-oglu Muammad (d. 1334) at Birgi
3. Inscription of 1337. from the Sehadet Mosque in Bursa
4. Inscription from a bridge in Ankara, dated 1375
5. Other inscriptions referring to Murad I
6. Dedicatory notice in a Quran preserved in the mausoleum of Murad I
7. Inscription on the tomb of Bayezid I, dated 809/1406-7
8. Title-page of an almanac (in Persian), dated 824. (1421)
9. A reference in ursun Beg's History of Memed II
10. A reference in Celalzade's History of Süleyman I
11. Ebus-Suud's proemium to his statement on 'state lands'
12. The second deposition of Muafa I, 1623
13. Fatwas on the Ghalzay Ashraf, 1726
14. Süleyman I to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, 1554

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Chapter II: The Dynasty: Princes

Section 1: The Appointment of Princes in the Early Fourteenth Century

1. Osman's sons
2. Oran's sons
3. Oran's sons, after the conquest of Nicaea

Section 2: Princely Governorships

1. Prince orkud leaves Istanbul for his governorship
2. A letter from Prince Alemsah's mother Gülru to Bayezid II
3. A decree of Prince Amed to the yaya yoldaslar
4. A decree of Prince Selim [II]
5. A decree of Prince Memed [III]

Section 3: Fratricide

1. Statement of the former Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos
2. The accession of Bayezid I, 1389
   a. From the Anonymous Chronicles
3. The civil war (1402-13)
4. The accession of Murad II, 1421
5. The accession of Bayezid II, 1481
6. The first accession of Memed II, 1444
7. The second accession of Memed II, 1451
   a. From Michael Doukas's Historia Turco-Byzantina
   b. From Ibn Kemal's Tevârih-i Âl-i Osmân
8. Popular criticism of fratricide: the story of the abdication of Ali Pasha
9. The accession of Memed III, 1595
10. The accession of Amed I, 1603

Sources

Chapter III: The Dynasty: Recruitment into the Sultan's Service

Section 1: Pencik and Devsirme

1. A decree regulating the pencik
2. Tolls to be levied on slaves taken across the Bosphorus
3. A template decree for levying boys for the devsirme
4. A Janissary lobbies the sultan on behalf of his family
5. Escaping the devsirme
6. The recovery of a captured novice

Section 2: Promotion to the Sultan's Service

1. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1562/3
2. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1567/8
3. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1560/1
4. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1573/4
5. Command to the aga of the Janissaries, 1583
6. The pay of palace servants: an account register from 1478

Section 3: Berats

1. The appointment of a preacher in Bursa
2. The appointment of a beglerbegi
3. The appointment of a ai
4. The appointment of a metropolitan
5. The appointment of mountain guards

Sources

Chapter IV: The Vizierate and the Divan

1. The Aaf-name of Lufi Pasa
2. The divan: a Venetian account
3. Submissions to the sultan
   a. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi asan Pasa
   b. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi asan Pasa
   c. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi asan Pasa
   d. Submission of the vizier Yemisçi asan Pasa
   e. Submission of Yemisçi asan Pasa
   f. Submission of the grand vizier Memed Pasa
4. The sultan's written instructions
5. Death of a grand vizier: report of Henry Lello

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Chapter V: The Provincial Administration and the Timar System

1. From the report of Iacopo de Promontorio, c1475-80
2. An entry in a timar-register, with marginal notes
   a. Timar of Inebegi and üseyn, sons of serasker asan
   b. [Possibly relating to the village of Yilinça]
   c. [possibly relating to the village of Pirvol]
3. Two entries from the detailed register of Amid, 1518
   a. Timar of Yemini the Kurd, a sipahi of the sanca of Amid
   b. Timar of Sadullah the yaavul, a sipahi of the sanca of Amid
4. Sundry marginal notes in a summary-register of c1445, Thessaloniki etc.
5. Marginal notes in a similar register of 1455, Skopje
   a. Timar of Musa, retainer (idmetkar) of Isa Beg
   b. Timar of Yusuf, kinsman of the mir-aur amza Beg
6. Two timar grants
   a. Thessaloniki: the timar of Memed
   b. Yalaabad [in the sanca of] ocaeli
7. Conversion of privately-owned revenue to a a-estate
8. A call for volunteers before the Moldavian campaign, 1484
9. Submissions by and to the sanca begi of Bosnia, c1512-14
   a. The sanca begi of Iskodra to Yunus Pasa of Bosnia
   b. The sancak begi of Zvornik to Yunus
   c. The sancabegi of Bosnia to the naib of Visoka
   d. The sanca begi of Bosnia to the Porte
   e. The sancabegi of Bosnia to the Porte
   f. The sancabegi of Bosnia to the Porte
   g. The sancabegi of Bosnia to the Pasa
   h. The sancabegi of Bosnia to the Pasa
10. 'The good old days'

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Chapter VI: The Religio-Legal Institution

Section 1: Law and Religious Practice

1. Passages on the law of sale from anafi legal texts
   a. From al-Matn of al-Quduri (d. 1037)
   b. From al-Ikhtiyar fi talil al-Mukhtar of al-Muili (d. 1284)
   c. From al-Fatawa of Qaikhan (d. 1195)
2. A fatwa on the application of Shafii doctrine
3. A fatwa on acquiring land for a new mosque construction
4. A fatwa on taxing land occupied by descendants of the Prophet
5. A fatwa on a ai granting unauthorised tax exemptions
6. A fatwa on Rumelian ais issuing üccets
7. A fatwa on sipahis taking a tithe
8. A fatwa on Muslim villagers neglecting prayer
9. A fatwa on money fines for neglecting prayer
10. A fatwa on executing a repentant heretic sey
11. Command to the sancabegi of Amasya
12. Command to the sancabegi of Amasya, Ilyas beg
13. To the sancabegi of Kastamonu and the ai of Küre
14. To the ai of Niksar

Section 2: The Administration of Law

1. A üccet on repairs to a monastery on Mount Athos
2. A üccet on returning a defective slave-girl to the vendor
3. A sicill-entry on the sale of a vacant site by a Muslim to a dhimmi
4. A sicill-entry on a debt owed by a dhimmi to a Muslim
5. A sicill-entry on a money loan
6. A sicill-entry on the daughter of a recent convert
7. A sicill-entry on divorce and the legality of the wife's second marriage
8. A sicill-entry on cloth measuring short
9. A sicill-entry on unsatisfactory goods
10. A sicill-entry on a complaint by the weavers' guild
11. A sicill-entry on a smith not receiving his dues
12. A sicill-entry on the payment of tax on a slave girl
13. A sicill-entry on the ownership of sheep
14. A sicill-entry on a burglary
15. A sicill-entry on a violent argument between father and son
16. A sicill-entry of a command to the sancabegis and ais of Anaoli
17. A sicill-entry of a command to the ai and the inspector of muaaas
18. A fatwa on contracting marriage between minors
19. A fatwa on the validity of contracting marriage without the ai
20. A fatwa on re-marrying without intermediate marriage
21. A fatwa on giving customs money as zakat
22. A fatwa on giving alms
23. A fatwa on a preacher's statement about a ai
24. A fatwa on the testimony of foreign merchants (arbi) against a dhimmi
25. A fatwa on a Christian woman's charitable endowment
26. A fatwa on the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul and its surroundings
27. A fatwa on slaves purchasing slaves of their own
28. A fatwa on the sultan's slaves contracting marriages
29. A fatwa on a ai acting outside his jurisdiction
30. A fatwa on the dismissal of a debauched ai
31. A fatwa on the death of a falsely accused person after wrongful torture
32. A fatwa on extortionate loan transactions
33. A fatwa on tax income for sipahis
34. A fatwa on tax income, including in kind, for sipahis
35. A fatwa on bennak tax
36. A fatwa on capitation tax (ispençe), grape tithe and taxes on pigs
37. A fatwa on a rebellious son of the sultan
38. A fatwa on those who lead the sultan astray
39. A fatwa on deposing a sultan who disturbs order by accepting bribery
40. A fatwa on the legality of killing fomenters of corruption
41. A fatwa on punishment for a thief stealing from the imperial treasury

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Chapter VII: anunnames

1. The 'Kraelitz text'
2. The anunname of üdavendgar, 1487
3. Extracts from the 'general' anunname, c1500
4. The anunname of Siverek, 1518
5. The anunname of Sis, 1518
6. The anunname of Nikopol, reign of Süleyman I
   a. Instructions...