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The text offers a comprehensive survey of mid-19th-century Ottoman society, tracing the Turks' origins, Islamic beliefs and sects, and ritual practices, then detailing governmental structures, administrative organs, military forces including the Janissaries, fiscal systems, and legal and educational institutions. It examines daily urban life—markets, baths, coffeehouses, domestic arrangements, the harem, and the condition of women—alongside commerce, medicine, minorities' status, slavery, and social customs, concluding with commentary on the aristocracy, public personnel, and possible directions for reform and the empire’s future.

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The following reviews of this work can be found on-line: Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art Volume 9 Issue 53 (May 1857) p. 550, The North American Review Vol. 85, No. 176 (Jul., 1857), pp. 257-258 .

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Related Library of Congress catalog page: 05009264
Related WorldCat catalog page: 2962957
Related Open Library catalog page (for source): OL6953427M
Related Open Library catalog page (for work): OL7848534W

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