Essays in Ottoman History Author:Halil Inalcik In this volume are collected papers published between 1960 and 1994, dealing with early Ottoman history and historiography, and Ottoman urban and legal history. "I believe we have to consider first whether the Ottomans themselves divided their history into periods, whether they were conscious of a distinction between the age in which they l... more »ived and earlier ages, and what ideas they had about periods in history."