This volume has a special focus on the Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia as seen and described by travellers from both within and outside the region. 26 papers shed valuable light on the topics of Christian-Muslim and East-West relations, and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to successor nation-states in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Preface: Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo – Aid Smajić   An Introduction to Travellers in Ottoman Lands II: the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond – Paul and Janet Starkey   Part 1: Landscapes 1 ‘The khans of Bosnia are large barns’? A material approach to mobility in Ottoman Bosnia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century – Vincent Thérouin 2 Eco-Narrative of the Balkans in the sixteenth-century chronicle Hasht Bihisht, by Idrīs Bidlīsī – Sabaheta Gačanin 3 Representation of rivers in travel literature in the German language on late Ottoman Bosnia – Nedim Rabić and Amer Maslo 4 Counting the Ottoman Capital: Auguste Viquesnel’s Voyage dans la Turquie d’Europe and travel writing as a quantitative source – Burak Beşir Fındıklı 5 Travellers’ Narratives on the Ottoman House: filling the missing links in the evolution of structure and form – İbrahim Canbulat   Part 2: Religion and Travel 6 The Mystical Aspect of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Travels: the spiritual visions that shaped Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s path – Ibrahim Al-Khaffaf 7 Mobility among Ottoman ʿulamāʾ: Mudarris Ḍiyāʾ al-dīn ʿAbdullah b. Muḥammad al-Akhiskhāwī in Sarajevo – Velida Mataradžija 8 Foreign travel writers’ perceptions of religious orders in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the long nineteenth century – Omer Merzić and Vedrana Šimić 9 The ‘Millet-system’ to the test: religious freedom, tolerance and coexistence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bosnia as revealed in Arthur J. Evans’s 1875 travelogue Through Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot – Ines Aščerić-Todd   Part 3: Travellers from Diplomats, Merchants and Physicians, to Photographers, Botanists and Kings 10 Descriptions and images of women in the Ottoman Balkans in sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Netherlandish travelogues – Maja Perić 11 On Departing the Ottoman Empire; the return of Peter Mundy (1597–c. 1667) from Constantinople through the Balkans to London in 1620 – Jennifer Scarce 12 Mixing Western and Eastern medical practice in the Ottoman Empire: the adventures of a Transylvanian doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq (1815–1838) – Alexandru Balas 13 The Journey of His Majesty King Friedrich August of Saxony through Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro in the spring of 1838 with Bartolomeo Biasoletto – Kristina Milković 14 Girault de Prangey and his connection to Lamartine’s Anatolian Colonisation Project – Anastasia Uskova†   Part 4: Fantasies, Images and Folktales 15 Mermen, revenants, unicorns: fantastic creatures in Western travel writing on the Ottoman Empire – Doris Gruber 16 Fair Boys and Wicked Ladies: peoples of the Balkans in the work of Enderunlu Fazıl Bey – Michael Erdman 17 En plein air: three artist-writers and their travelling companions in Rumelia – Janet Starkey 18 Imagological models of Bosnia in pictures and words: Heinrich Renner’s travelogue Durch Bosnien und die Herzegovina, Kreuz und Quer [‘Criss-cross through Bosnia and Herzegovina’] (1896) – Aida Abadžić Hodžić 19 An American, a Scot, and an Irishman at a Turkish coffeehouse: Tales recounted in Ottoman coffeehouses introduced to the Western World – Melike Tokay 20 ‘The Hero’s Journey’ out from Under The Yoke – Gemma Masson   Part 5: Imperial Discourse, the Rise of Nations, and Rapportage 21 Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer – Christina Erck 22 Edith Durham: Balkan Traveller, Anthropologist, and ‘Mountain Queen’ – Paul Starkey 23 Backwardness and Otherness: Ahmed Şerif’s Description of the Ottoman Provinces (1909–1914) and the Question of Ottoman Orientalism – Patrick Schilling 24 The Ottoman Empire and Italian imperial discourse: How Ottoman rule in Albania was represented in Italian literature to legitimate its imperial ambitions – Pietro Dalmazzo 25 The Balkan nations in the Italian Travelogue Mirror: a contribution to the study of reportage (1774–1922) – Konstantin Dragaš 26 Travelogues published in Bosanska Sumejja: magazin za žene i porodicu from 2000 to 2022 – Azra Hasanović   Papers read at the Seminar ‘Travellers in Ottoman Lands: the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond’ held at of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, on 24-26 August 2022   Contributors   Index