Introduction PART I: Travels An Edirne scholar on Ottoman architecture and politics: The pilgrimage account of Abdurrahman Hibri Bringing back keepsakes from seventeenth-century Mecca Evliya Celibi's tales of Cairo's guildsmen Travellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth century Uskudar Immigrant tradesmen as guild members - or the adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century Istanbul Refugees and asylum seekers on Ottoman territory in the early modern period The image of Europe in the reports of the Ottoman ambassadors of the eighteenth century Ottoman travellers to Venice PART II: Artisans 9. Repairs to the Ottoman fortress of Hotin 10. Ottoman artisans under Selim III 11. Ottoman textiles in early modern Europe 12. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century artisans negotiating guild agreements in Istanbul 13. Christian and Jewish artisans in late eighteenth-century Istanbul 14. Istanbul halva manufacturers in the mid-eighteenth century 15. Keeping artisans in their places - or how to run a guild 16. At the Ottoman Empire's industrious core: The Story of Bursa Purchasing guild and craft-based offices in the Ottoman central lands.