This volume contains seven articles by Prof. Dr. Halil Sahillioğlu related to various topics in Ottoman economic and social history. The articles, previously publishedin variousbooks andjournals, were revisedby the author for thispublication. Most of them focus on periodically recurringphenomena closely relatedto the structure of the Ottoman economy and history of society, such asproblems of money andcirculation, techniques of coinage, revenues and expenditures of the treasury, and various other themes.