CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Part One. Orientalists
4. 1. An Ostrich Egg for Golius; the John Rylands Library MS Persian 913 and the History of Early Modern Contacts between the Dutch Republic and the Islamic World 9
5. 2. Franz von Dombay and the Bosnian Border 75
6. 3. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje in Istanbul, 1908 153
7. 4. The Importance of the Süssheim Papers for Modern Turkish History 181
8. 5. Karl Süssheim and the Bavarian Postal Censorship During the First World War 197
9. 6. Franz Taeschner's Collection of Turkish Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library 237
10. Part Two. Travellers and Merchants in the Ottoman Empire
11. 1. Ottoman Hajj Manuals and the John Rylands Library MS Turkish 88 269
12. 2. The Travel Notes of Dutch Pastor in Anatolia, 1717-1727 279
13. 3. Dutch Merchants in 18th-century Ankara 301
14. 4. The Return Journey of Baron Van Dedem van de Gelder, Dutch Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, in 1793 329
15. 5. Dutch Opium Dealers in the Levant, 1820-1945 399
16. Part Three. Political Relations between Europe and the Porte
17. 1. French-Ottoman Relations in the Early Modern Period and the John Rylands Library MSS Turkish 45 & 46 417
18. 2. "Showing the Flag". The Dutch Navy in Ottoman Waters, 1875-1925 475
19. 3. The Herklots Affair of 1893. A Case Study in Capitalism and Power Politics 551