In The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Art Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Fetvacı makes available a dazzling album––the album Ahmed I (Topkapı Palace Museum Library, B. 408)––to broad audience, provides first comprehensive study this work. Compiled by courtier Kalender Paşa (d. 1616), is striking gathering variety materials, including calligraphy, paintin...

The present study depicts the developments which took place at Polish-Ottoman frontier and in Ottoman imperial centre between 1633 1634, when a fullscale war Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Empire was imminent. Even though major episodes of conflict have been highlighted from Polish perspective several times before, it is hard to say same regarding vantage point. Therefore, this paper tries make...