This collection of essays in honor of John C. Alexander, professor of Ottoman and Turkish history at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Written by former students and colleagues, the papers concentrate of topics of interest to Professor Alexander, namely Ottoman Christian communities, the Ottoman Balkans and the Greek lands. The authors follow in the footsteps of Alexander’s scholarly philosophy of questioning existing theories and the need to find evidence to support them. The volume includes work by noted Ottomanists such as Suraiya Faroqhi, Heath Lowry and Gilles Veinstein.