Nur Bilge Criss

The volume is testimony to how gentlemen scholars inspire their younger counterparts. Such legacy deserves honoring beyond institutional awards valuable though they may be. Compiled and edited in Professor Norman Itzkowitz’ honor, Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World is composed of four parts: The Pre and Early Ottoman Periods, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and The Twentieth Century. Periodization of this kind is refreshing to readers from Turkey, who are still inundated with periodizations such as the Rise, Zenith, Decline, and Fall of the Empire categories.