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Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata-a Mediterranean and Black Sea port-to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters within the institution of ahdnames (commercial and diplomatic treaties), this thoughtful book offers a critical perspective on the existing scholarship. For too long, the Ottoman empire has been defined as an absolutist military power driven by religious conviction, culturally and politically apart from the rest of Europe, and devoid of a commercial policy. By taking a close look at Galata, Fariba Zarinebaf provides a different approach based on a history of commerce, coexistence, competition, and collaboration through the lens of Ottoman legal records, diplomatic correspondence, and petitions. She shows that this port was just as cosmopolitan and pluralist as any large European port and argues that the Ottoman world was not peripheral to European modernity but very much part of it.

Galata (Istanbul, Turkey) --- History. --- adhnames. --- ahdname. --- black sea trade. --- cosmopolitanism in the ottoman empire. --- european diplomacy in the mediterranean. --- european modernity. --- european trade in the mediterranean. --- galata. --- history of commerce in the ottoman empire. --- history of the ottoman empire. --- history of the ottoman world. --- mediterranean encounters. --- mediterranean sea trade. --- merchant ships. --- middle eastern history. --- ottoman conquest. --- ottoman empire and european modernity. --- ottoman european encounters. --- pluralist society of early modern period.