List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Debate to Date
2. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of Ahmedi's Iskendername
3. Wittek Revisited: His Utilization of the 1337 Bursa Inscription
4. What Could the Terms Gaza and Gazi Have Meant to the Early Ottomans?
5. Toward A New Explanation
6. Christian Peasant Life in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
7. The Last Phase of Ottoman SyncretismThe Subsumption of Members of the Byzanto-Balkan Aristocracy into the Ottoman Ruling Elite
8. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Notes
Bibliography
Index