The article reviews a book dealing with Ghazi Husrev-Bey, the sixteenth-century Ottoman governor of Bosnia, military strategist, and donor and builder of Sarajevo, based on archives in Turkey and Sarajevo. It is thematically divided in the following parts: Ghazi Husrev-Bey (from Serres to Sarajevo), Ghazi Husrev-Bey’s vakuf (religious endowment), Ghazi Husrev-Bey’s complex of buildings, Ghazi Husrev-Bey’s possessions, Ghazi Husrev-Bey’s court and courtiers, and Sarajevo at the time of Ghazi Husrev-Bey. Ghazi Husrev-Bey was rewarded with numerous possessions in Bosnia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in return for successful war campaigns, and he contributed to the development and urbanization of Sarajevo by building numerous public buildings. The book is an important contribution to the early history of the Ottoman rule in Bosnia.