Suraiya N Faroqhi Editor

Suraiya N. Faroqhi is Professor of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her publications include The Ottoman Empire: A Short History (2004), Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans (2009) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 3: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603–1839 (2006). Kate Fleet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in Ottoman History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (2006), A Social History of Istanbul, co-authored with Ebru Boyar (2010) and, as editor, The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 1: Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 (2009).