Introduction -- Part I. ORIENTALIST EPISTEMOLOGIES -- "A Captive Library between Morocco and Spain" (Oumelbanine Zhiri) -- "Political Pragmatism, Humanist Ideals, and Early Modern Orientalism in Busbecq's Turkish Letters" (Kaya Şahin) -- "Competing Forms of Knowledge in Adam Olearius's Orientalische Reise (1647)" (Aigi Heero and Maris Saagpakk) -- Part II. EMPIRE AND ITS ORIENTS -- "The Discourse on the Chinese and Muslim Worlds in the Hispanic Empire (New Spain and Castile, 1550-1650)" (José L. Gasch-Tomás and Natalia Maillard Álvarez) -- "Mapping Islam in the Philippines: Moro Anxieties of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific" (Ana María Rodríguez-Rodríguez) -- "The Invention of Europe and the Intellectual Struggle for Political Imagination: Spanish Humanism on the Ottomans" (Natalio Ohanna) -- Part III. ORIENTALISM AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE -- "Europe, France, and the Ottoman Empire in the Essais: Montaigne's Dialectics" (Marcus Keller) -- "Mehmed II and His Woman: The Idea of Europe in Early Modern Representations of a Female Captive" (David Moberly) -- "Was There a Pan-European Orientalism? Icelandic and Flemish Perspectives on Captivity in Muslim North Africa (1628-1656)" (Toby Wikström) -- Part IV. VISUAL DIALECTICS -- "Christian of Ottoman Europe in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books" (Robyn D. Radway) -- "Amazon Battle and the Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Painting Canon" (Lisa Rosenthal) -- "The Architectural Setting of 'Empire': the English Experience of Ottoman Spectacle in the Late Seventeenth Century and Its Consequences" (Lydia M. Soo).