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The present article publishes the texts and translations of two firmans of Süleyman II (1101/1690) and Selim III (1209/1794) that were taken from copies in the kadi registers (sicil) of Amasya and Damascus. They concerned the reform of the Ottoman courier and post-station (ulaḳ / menzilḫāne) network with regard to the Anatolian routes. In contrast to the wide-ranging reforms featured by two other firmans (1108/1696) that Colin Heywood translated in this journal in 2001, these firman texts feature small-scale, targeted reforms. Read together, these firmans shift our understanding of reform away from singular moments of intervention towards a longer-term, incremental model of maintenance.

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  • Koh Choon Hwee 2021. ‘The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation.’ Past & Present 251/1: 113152.

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  • Reynard, Pierre Claude 1999. ‘Unreliable Mills: Maintenance Practices in Early Modern Papermaking.’ Technology and Culture 40/2: 237262.

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