Istanbul as seen from a distance :  centre and provinces in the Ottoman Empire / 
edited by Elisabeth Özdalga, M. Sait Özervarlı, Feryal Tansuğ. 
 - Istanbul :  Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul,  2011. 
 - 219 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  28 cm. 
 - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Transactions ;  v. 20. .
 - Transactions (Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul) ;  v. 20. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Stockholm as seen from a Distance / Johan Holm -- Constantinople and the Early Islamic Conquests / Jan Retsö -- Arab Attitudes towards the Ottoman Sultanate, 1516-1798 / Bruce Masters -- Part II. Becoming Ottoman in 16th Century Aintab / Leslie Peirce -- Petitions and Accommodating Urban Change in the Ottoman Empire / Nora Lafı -- Contesting the Imperial Centre : Political Elites in Smyrna and their rivalry with Istanbul / Vangelis Kechriotis -- Istanbul and the Aegean Islands: Imroz in the mid-19th Century / Feryal Tansuğ -- Part III. Visualising the Ottoman Presence in Damascus : Interpreting 16th Century Building Complexes / Marianne Boqvist -- A Glimpse from the Periphery : Medina in the Young Turk Era / Hasan Kayalı -- One Ottoman Periphery Views Another : Depictions of the Balkans in the Beirut Press, 1876-1908 / Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn -- Part IV. Nostalgia, Admiration and Critique : Istanbul in Arabic Travel Accounts from the Early 20th Century / Tetz Rooke -- Iraqi Memoirs of Ottomans and Arabs : Ma'ruf al-Rusafi and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi / Sami Zubaida -- Istanbul's Intellectual Environment and Iranian Scholars of the Early Modern Period / Mohammad Fazlhashemi.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789197881319 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1100-0333  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--History--1288-1918, Ottoman Empire.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DR486  / I88 2011