Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Series

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new case study for the interconnections among empires in the period, demonstrating how the Ottoman Empire shared political, cultural, economic, and even religious conceptual frameworks with contemporary and previous world empires.

List of Figures, List of Plates, List of Maps, List of Abbreviations, Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pronunciation, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Eye of the World: Textual and Visual Repertoires of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 1 Negotiating Space and Imperial Ideology in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 2 Mapping and Describing Ottoman Constantinople, 3 Charting the Mediterranean: The Ottoman Grand Strategy, 4 Projecting the Frontiers of the Known World, Epilogue: Ottoman Geographical Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, Bibliography, Index

M. Pinar Emiralioglu is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, USA.