Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor Emerita at Ibn Haldun University, Turkey. She has previously held positions at Istanbul Bilgi, Turkey, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany and the Middle East Technical University. A leading expert on the social history of the Ottoman Empire, her books include Subjects of the Sultan (I.B.Tauris, 2000), The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (I.B.Tauris, 2003), Artisans of Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and The Ottoman and Mughal Empires (I.B.Tauris, 2019).