Introduction; The Idea of a 'Tulip Age': A Paradigm and Its Meaning; Part I. The Ottoman Perception of Damad Ibrahim Pasa, 1910-20; Chapter 1; The Preamble to the 'Tulip Age': The Perception of Ahmed III and Damad Ibrahim, 1910-12; Chapter 2; The Construction of the 'Tulip Age': Ahmed Refik and his Lale Devri, 1913-15; Chapter 3; Calibrating the Idea of a 'Tulip Age': Ahmed Refik's Publications in the Period 1915-19; Part II. The Kemalist Perception of Damad Ibrahim Pasa, 1923-1947; Chapter 1; The Establishment of the Turkish Republic and the Quest for a New Historiography, 1923-29; Chapter 2; The Subterranean Survival of the 'Tulip Age', 1930-38; Chapter 3; The 'Tulip Age' as a Prelude to the Tanzimat: The Re-Appreciation of the Ottomans and Islam, 1940-47; Epilogue; The Politics of History, 1910-50; Bibliography.