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Examining the process of Westernization and social change during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Ottoman Empire, this study uses archival documents and historical chronicles to argue that social change precedes and contributes to the process of Westernization

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Unpacking Middle East Modernities -- Social Transformation and the State in the Middle East -- Part I: Unpacking Society -- 1 Banishment, Confiscation, and the Instability of the Ottoman Elite Household -- 1.1 Who Were the Pashas? -- 1.2 Households on Quicksand -- 1.3 Dismissal and Banishment -- 1.4 Confiscation Policy -- 1.5 Implications for the Ottoman Household -- 2 The Religious Endowments of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi: The Waqf Institution and the Survival of Ottoman Elite Households -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Feyzullah Efendi -- 2.3 The Ottoman Elite Household: Recruitment and Upkeep -- 2.4 The Religious Endowments of Feyzullah Efendi -- 2.5 The Contribution of the Waqf to the Survival of the Household -- 2.6 The Dynamism and Pragmatism of the Waqf -- 3 To be a Voyvoda in Diyarbakır: Socio-Political Change in an 18th-Century Ottoman Province -- 3.1 The Voyvoda and Voyvodalık -- 3.2 Conclusion -- Part II: Unpacking Law and Culture -- 4 Where Have All the People Gone? A Critique of Medieval Islamic Historiography -- 4.1 Introduction: The Lacuna -- 4.2 Historiography of the Shi`a -- 4.3 Historiography of the Madhāhib -- 4.4 Concluding Remarks -- 5 According to His Exalted Ḳânûn: Contending Visions of the Muftiship in the Ottoman Province of Damascus (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) -- 5.1 I -- 5.2 II -- 5.3 III -- 5.4 IV -- 5.5 V -- 6 The Slave, the Governor, and the Judge: An Ottoman Socio-Legal Drama from the Late Nineteenth­ Century -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 New Courts -- 6.3 The Trial of Ali Eşref Efendi -- 6.4 Legal Formalism and Accountability -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 The Policeman and State Policy: Police Accountability, Civilian Entitlements, and Ottoman Modernism, 1840-1860s -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 "Direct Access" -- 7.3 The "Nanny State".