Regulating Non-Muslim Communities in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Expanding beyond the famous cases of the French capitulations of 1604 and 1673, this book explores the often ignored religious privileges granted by the Ottoman sultans to the Catholic rulers of Venice, the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, as well as to the Protestant Dutch Republic and Orthodox Russia.

With many of the author's own translations and transliterations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on how European translations, the primary sources of previous scholarly works, offered a flawed perspective over the status of Catholics under Muslim rule.