TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 7
3. PREFACE 9
4. "Ahmedī's Dāsitān as a Source of Early Ottoman History," Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 38:1-2 (1984) ā 11
5. STATE AND SOCIETY, CRISIS AND REFORM, IN 15th-17th CENTURY OTTOMAN MIRROR FOR PRINCES 25
6. UNGARN UND WIEN IN DER OSMANISCHEN EROBERUNGSIDEOLOGIE 47
7. THE VIEW OF THE TURK IN HUNGARY: THE APOCALYPTIC TRADITION AND THE LEGEND OF THE RED APPLE IN OTTOMAN-HUNGARIAN CONTEXT 73
8. OTTOMAN POLICY TOWARDS HUNGARY, 1520 - 1541 107
9. BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTAL WARS: THE OTTOMAN NAVAL PREPARATIONS IN 1590-1592 173
10. AN ANTI-SEMITE GRAND VIZIER? THE CRISIS IN OTTOMAN-JEWISH RELATIONS IN 1589-1591 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 193
11. SULTAN, IMPERIAL COUNCIL, GRAND VIZIER: CHANGES IN THE OTTOMAN RULING ELITE AND THE FORMATION OF THE GRAND VIZIERAL TELHĪŞ 209
12. WHO SHOULD OBTAIN THE CASTLE OF PANKOTA (1565)? (INTEREST GROUPS AND SELF-PROMOTION IN THE MID-SIXTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT) 229
13. THE WAY OF A SEUUQ INSTITUTION TO HUNGARY: THE CEREHŌR 245
14. MAKING A LIVING ON THE FRONTIERS: VOLUNTEERS IN THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN ARMY 277