COLIN HEYWOOD, Writing Ottoman History: Documents and Interpretations, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2002). Pp. 370. $111.95 cloth.

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In the field of Islamic history, the publication of a Variorum volume of a scholar's reprinted articles signifies that that scholar has attained an unassailably authoritative status. No Ottomanist would deny that Colin Heywood has achieved this status. Although retired (prematurely) from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, he is still a very active scholar of the Ottoman Empire.