Notes from the Editors List of Illustrations Abbreviations Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen Introduction: A Transitional Point of View Michael Winter Egypt and Syria in the Sixteenth Century Egypt Paulina B. Lewicka Challenges of Daily Life in Early-Ottoman Cairo: a Learned Sufi’s Perspective. Preliminary Remarks on al-Muna¯wı¯’s Memorandum on Decent Behavior Wakako Kumakura The Early Ottoman Rural Government System and Its Development in Terms of Water Administration Claudia Römer An Attempt at Reconstructing the Ottoman Correspondence during Grand Vizier I İbrahim Paşa’s 1525 Mission to Egypt Michael Winter The Conquest of Syria and Egypt by Sultan Selim I, According to Evliyâ Çelebi Syria Linda T. Darling Investigating the Fiscal Administration of the Arab Provinces after the Ottoman Conquest of 1516 Alev Masarwa Performing the Occasion: The Chronograms of Ma¯mayya ar-Ru¯mı¯ (930– 985 or 987/1534–1577 or 1579) Toru Miura Transition of the ʻUlamaʼ Families in Sixteenth Century Damascus Torsten Wollina Sultan Selı¯m in Damascus: The Ottoman Appropriation of a Mamluk Metropolis (922–924/1516–1518) Mamluks-Ottomans Timothy J. Fitzgerald Rituals of Possession, Methods of Control, and the Monopoly of Violence: The Ottoman Conquest of Aleppo in Comparative Perspective Yehoshua Frenkel The Ottomans and the Mamlu¯ks through the Eyes of Arab Travelers (in 16th–17th Centuries) Cihan Yüksel Muslu “Nomadic” Borders of Ottoman Provinces during the Mamluk-Ottoman Imperial Transition Gül Şen Ottoman Servant, Mamluk Rebel? Narrative Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography – the Example of Ja¯nbirdı¯ al-Ghaza¯lı¯’s Downfall Bethany J. Walker Early Ottoman/Late Islamic I/post-Mamluk: What are the Archaeological Traces of the 16th Century in Syria ?” Notes on Contributors Index