Table Of ContentStudies in Ottoman History
Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
A co-publication with The Isis Press, Istanbul, the series consists of
collections of thematic essays focused on specific themes of
Ottoman and Turkish studies. These scholarly volumes address
important issues throughout Turkish history, offering in a single
volume the accumulated insights of a single author over a career of
research on the subject.
Studies in Ottoman History
In Honor of Professor V.L. Ménage
Edited by
Colin Heywood
Colin Imber
The Isis Press, Istanbul preSS
2010
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Copyright © 2010 by The Isis Press, Istanbul
Originally published in 1994
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Reprinted from the 1994 Istanbul edition.
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CONTENT
Preface IX
Bibliography of the Works of Professor V. L. Ménage (1956-1991)
compiled by Colin Heywood XI
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Sur quelques pèlerins et réfugiés d'Asie
Centrale dans l'Empire Ottoman 1
Nicoarä Beldiceanu et Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr, Considérations sur la
chronologie des sources ottomanes et ses pièges 15
Géza Dâvid, Ottoman Administrative Strategies in Western Hungary 31
Cornell H. Fleischer, Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal life in the
Sixteenth Century 45
B. H. Flemming, The Sultan's Prayer Before Battle 63
Aldo Gallotta, Il «Gazavât-i Hayreddîn Pa$a » Pars Secunda e la
Spedizione in Francia di Hayreddîn Barbarossa (1543-1544) 77
Colin Heywood, An Unsolved Murder in the Marmara (Notes on Bodl.
MS. Turk. d. 32) 91
P. M. Holt, A Notable in an Age of Transition: Jânim Bey al-Hamzàwi
(d. 944/1538) 107
Colin Imber, Canon and Apocrypha in Early Ottoman History 117
Halil înalcik, How to Read 'Äshtk Pasha-Zäde 's History 139
CemaJ Kafadar, cOsmân Beg and his Uncle: Murder in the Family? 157
Machicl Kiel, Mevlana Ne§ii and the Towns of Medieval Bulgaria 165
Vin CONTENT
î. Metin Kunt, The Waqf as an Instrument of Public Policy: Notes on
the KöpriilU Family Endowments 189
Rudi Paul Lindner, Beginning Ottoman History 199
Anthony Luttrell, Timur's Dominican Envoy 209
Irène Mélikoff, Qui était San Saltuk ? Quelques remarques sur les
manuscrits du Saltukname 231
N. Oikonomides, From Soldiers of Fortune to Gazi Warriors: the
Tzympe Affair 239
Stephen W. Reinert, A Byzantine Source on the Battles ofBileéa (?) and
Kosovo Polje: Kydones ' letters 396 and 398 Reconsidered 249
Michael Rogers, The Palace, Poisons and the Public. Some Lists of
Drugs in mid- 16th Century Ottoman Turkey 273
Claudia Römer, On Some Hâss-Estates Illegally Claimed by Arslan
Pasa, Beglerbegi of Buda1565-1566 297
Peter Sebastian, Ottoman Government Officials and their Relations with
the Republic of Venice in the Early Sixteenth Century 319
Nicolas Vatin, Deux îles à la dérive: Samos et Icaria entre 1475 et 1572. 339
Gilles Veinstein, A propos des ehl-i hiref et du devfirme 351
Stéphane Yerasimos, Fatih: une région d'Istanbul aux XVe et XVIe
siècles 369
Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, The Worrisome Wealth of the Celnik Radié 383
PREFACE
The idea of producing a Festschrift in honour of Professor Ménage had its
origin in a conversation between its two present editors in the autumn of 1989.
It soon became apparent that, despite the immediate and enthusiastic acceptance
of the idea among a large number of potential contributors, the editors' original
objective of publishing the work on the occasion of the recipient's seventieth
birthday would have to be abandoned when it was discovered, by dint of delicate
enquiry, that this event would already fall to be celebrated in the spring of the
following year.
Since then, the undertaking has progressed to a point at which the editors
can look forward with pleasure to celebrating, although a little in advance, the
accomplishment of Professor Ménage's third quarter-century, and, on behalf of all
the contributors, to offering him, together with their warmest good wishes and
congratulations, the present volume.
The Festschrift which they now present could not have appeared without
the assistance of a number of people. In the first place the editors wish to record
their indebtedness to Sinan Kuneralp, who not only took on as his own
contribution the full charge and responsibility of printing and publishing the
work, but continually encouraged and facilitated the editors in their task and bore
with stoicism and good humour the out-of-course delays which have on occasion
impeded their progress. The editors' sincere thanks are also due to Dr. Caroline
Finkel for assistance in the earlier stages of the work, and to her and to Dr.
Andrew Finkel, and also to Dr. William Hale, for their ever-willing assistance as
unofficial couriers of manuscripts, floppy discs and proofs between London and
Istanbul. Finally, to his co-editor, Dr. Colin Imber, who in difficult times last
year shouldered single-handed the major burden of the second proof stage of the
work, the undersigned expresses his deepest thanks.
Wendover, Rùz-iHiZr 1994. Colin HEYWOOD
