Introduction: Dealing with identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull -- Part I. 13th through 15th centuries--Emergence and expansion : from frontier Beylik to cosmopolitan empire -- The giving divide : food gifts and social identity in late medieval Anatolia / Nicolas Trépanier -- Changing perceptions along the frontiers : the moving frontier with rum in late medieval Anatolian frontier narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan -- The Genoese of Pera in the fifteenth century : Draperio and Spinola families / F. Ozden Mercan -- From Byzantine aristocracy to Ottoman ruling elite : Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides -- Interpreting Ottoman identity with the historian Nesri Murat Cem Menguc -- A shaykh, a prince, and a sack of corn : an Anatolian Sufi becomes Ottoman / Hasan Karatas -- Part II. 15th through 17th centuries--Expansion and cultural splendor : the creation of a Sunni Islamic empire -- Ibn-i Kemal's confessionalism and the construction of an Ottoman Islam / Nabil Al-Tikriti -- Becoming Ottoman in sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce -- Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer -- Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani : a merchant and urban notable of early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins -- Mihrimah Sultan : a princess constructs Ottoman dynastic identity / Christine -- Isom-Verhaaren -- Part III. 17th through 18th centuries--Upheaval and transformation : from conquest to administrative state -- The Sultan's advisors and their opinions on the identity of the Ottoman elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling -- Fleeing "the vomit of infidelity" : borders, conversion, and Muslim women's agency / Eric Dursteler -- Policing morality : crossing gender and communal boundaries in an age of political crisis and religious controversy / Fariba Zarinebaf -- Leaving France, "turning Turk, " becoming Ottoman : the transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber -- Out of Africa, into the palace : the Ottoman chief harem eunuch / Jane Hathaway -- The province goes to the center : the case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis Hadjikyriacou -- Part IV. 19th through 20th centuries--Modernity, mass politics, and nationalism : from empire to nation-state -- Ruler visibility, modernity, and ethnonationalism in the late Ottoman Empire / Darin N. Stephanov -- Muslims' contributions to science and Ottoman identity / M. Alper Yalcinkaya -- Migrants, revolutionaries, and spies : surveillance, politics, and Ottoman identity in the United States / David Gutman -- A Cappadocian in Athens, an Athenian in Smyrna, and a Parliamentarian in Istanbul : the multiple personae and loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis -- Zionism in the era of Ottoman brotherhood / Michelle U. Campos -- Connections and questions to consider.