Very often, the editors responsible for collections of articles will state that they have joined originally disparate contributions into coherent publications that resemble single-author books. Put differently, these editors claim to have established strong connections between the pieces entrusted to them by individual authors. Often these editors will go so far as to rename the articles at issue, now calling them ‘chapters’. By contrast, the present collection is consciously eclectic, and the editor does not aim at presenting the eight articles appearing here as parts of a unified whole. Rather, I hope that readers will be able to visualise, at least in part, the diversity of approaches to pre-1850s Ottoman social history as practiced today. Moreover, this collection should make visible some trends that may be relevant for the future, the historians at issue—with the exception of the present author—being either young scholars or else in mid-career.

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很多时候，负责文章收藏的编辑会说，他们已经将原本不同的贡献合并成连贯的出版物，类似于单一作者的书籍。换句话说，这些编辑声称已经在个别作者委托给他们的作品之间建立了牢固的联系。通常，这些编辑会重命名有争议的文章，现在称它们为“章节”。相比之下，本系列有意识地兼收并蓄，编者无意将出现在这里的八篇文章作为一个整体的一部分呈现出来。相反，我希望读者能够至少部分地将今天所实践的 1850 年代前奥斯曼社会历史方法的多样性可视化。此外，这个系列应该可以看到一些可能与未来相关的趋势，