Tables
2.1 Key dates and events in the life of ʿOs̱mān Agha 28
10.1 “Foreign” United States consular agents in late nineteenth-century Egypt 217
10.2 Families protected by United States in Alexandria and Cairo (1867) 218
Figures
1.1 Ghurids and Mamluks, 1175–1290 4
2.1 Tārīḫ-i Ṭemešvar, the opening page and the colophon 32
2.2 Tārīḫ-i Ṭemešvar, the opening page and the colophon 32
6.1 The English Embassy in Tepebaşı, Pera 118
6.2 A timber house with a wooden structure in Ortaköy 120
6.3 The Galata Bridge 124
6.4 Rue de Pera 128
7.1 The Bardisbanian (Pandespanian) Mansion in Bornova 145
7.2 The Edwards (Murat) Mansion in Bornova 145
7.3 The Christian Russo Mansion in Buca 146
7.4 The Catholic Church of Nostra Signora del Rosario in Alsancak 149
7.5 Interior decoration of the Catholic Church of St. Polycarpe 150
7.6 The former École des Pères Lazaristes 152
7.7 The former St. Roch Hospital in Konak 154
7.8 The French Hospital in Alsancak 155
8.1 A firman of Selim II on the water supply of Ṣoḳollu Meḥmed Pasha’s palace (1567) 160