The Ottomans:

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1. Alderson, A. J. The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. Oxford: 1956.
2. Babinger, Franz. Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time.1953 Repr. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
3. Braudel, F. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World. Trnalsated by S. Reynolds. New York: 1972.
4. C. Cahen, Pre Ottoman Turkey 1071 -1330. Translated by J. Jones Williams, London: 1968.
5. Fattah, Hala. "Representations of Self and the Other in Two Iraqi Travelogues of the Ottoman Period." IJMES 30 no.1 (1998): 51-76.
6. Gibb, H. A. R. and H. Bowen, Islamic Society and the West. 2 Vols. Oxford:  1950-51.
7. Inalcik, Halil. An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire. Vol. 1. 1300-1600. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1994.
8. Itzkowitz, N. The Ottoman Empire and the Islamic Tradition. New York: 1972.
9. Köprülü, M. Fuad. The Origins of the Ottoman Empire. Translated by Gary Leiser. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
10. Kunt, I. M. The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of the Ottoman Provincial Governement 1550-1650.  New York:  1983.
11. McCarthy, Justin. The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923. London: Longman,1997.
12. Palmer, Alan. The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1992.
13. Penzer, N. M. The Harem. 1936 Repr. London: Spring Books, 1965.
14. Runciman, S. The Fall of Constantinople. Cambridge: 1965.
15. Shaw, Stanford J. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. 2 vols. Cambridge: 1976 Repr. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
16. Quartaert, Donald. "Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829." IJMES 29 no. 3 (1997): 403-25.