Alan Fisher’s Crimea and Crimean Tatars is a collection of essays pertaining to the Turkish Tatars who inhabit the Crimean peninsula and is the fruit of some 35 years of study. Fisher traces the Tatar history in the Crimea back to the sixteenth century, before the Russian conquest of the region. This period of Crimean history is coloured by the Ottoman presence in the peninsula, a period which is not as well studied as the later Russian one. However, Fisher’s work in the Ottoman archives leads him to take a very different approach to Ottoman-Crimean history than had previous scholars. Fisher does also devote several articles from this volume to the Crimea under Russian – and later Soviet – rule. He pays particular attention to leading Tatar figures and to the Crimea in the context of the Russian state’s relations with its Muslim subjects.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 7)
• INTRODUCTION (page 9)
• OTTOMAN SOURCES FOR A STUDY OF KEFE VILAYET: THE MALIYEDEN MUDEVVER FOND IN THE BASBAKANLIK ARSIVI IN ISTANBUL (page 19)
• LES RAPPORTS ENTRE L'EMPIRE OTTOMAN ET LA CRIMEE L'aspect financier (page 37)
• THE OTTOMAN CRIMEA IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY (page 53)
• THE OTTOMAN CRIMEA IN THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: SOME PROBLEMS AND PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS* (page 85)
• CRIMEAN SEPARATISM IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (page 97)
• SAHIN GIRAY, THE REFORMER KHAN, AND THE RUSSIAN ANNEXATION OF THE CRIMEA (page 111)
• SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF RUSSIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE CASE OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS (page 141)
• ISMAIL GASPIRALI, MODEL LEADER FOR ASIA (page 155)
• ISMAIL BEY GASPRINSKI, 1851-1914 (page 171)
• THE CRIMEAN TATARS, THE USSR, AND TURKEY (page 195)