The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

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The existence of the church within the residential complex was in accordance with Ragusan privileges, but contradicted postulates of Islamic law. Baer’s new survey of Ottoman history, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs asks its readers to imagine a Europe of which the Ottomans were an integral part. Closer examination, however, reveals substantial "continuity between the late Ottoman Empire" and the Republic as Turkish treatment of religious and ethnic minorities exposes an unacknowledged streak of Islamic supersessionism.

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Tens of thousands of Armenian girls and women were raped and subjected to sexual violence, taken into Muslim families as daughters or brides, and converted to Islam and taught Kurdish or Turkish, thereby escaping deportation. Chronological chapters focused on successive rulers are followed by thematic ones addressing cultural issues, messianic depictions of the sultan, the rise of the Ottomans as a maritime power and attitudes to women, Jews and eunuchs in dynastic politics. A ceremonial kaftân, a luxurious object made of silk interwoven with golden threads, given by sultan Mehmed II to the head of Bosnian Franciscans following the conquest of the country in 1463, is preserved in the museum of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica. Sultan Mehmed II, who had his portrait painted by the Venetian Renaissance master Gentile Bellini in 1480, is presented as a renaissance prince and patron of Italian and Greek scholars.Examples of original correspondence are used to highlight the communication differences and the difficulties that ensured. By promoting his image as a benevolent ruler and the supreme icon of the imagined Ottoman past, Mehmed Reşad endeavored to safeguard his status as a sultan and the future of the sultanate.

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Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander DruThe Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism. Ottoman history provides no shortage of larger-than-life homicidal maniacs whose stories make for very colorful reading. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In 1604, a charismatic Sufi sheikh from Tunis commissioned the translation into Ottoman Turkish of Abdallāh b. Inevitably in books like this, the narrative shoals for long, wonderful stretches on personal stories.

The new title represented the transition to a more settled and organised empire, which was expanded by Murad I's conquests of Adrianople (which he renamed Edirne) and much of the Balkans during his reign. In the late seventeenth century along the lines of European confession-building and Ottoman sunnitization, the Armenian Apostolic Church initiated the reshaping of its orthodoxy in the face of growing Tridentine Catholicism. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the main points and details of the work, as well as highlighting the contributions of the future Sultans of the Ottoman Empire until that entity’s fall and decimation in the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries. Thus, the examination of these mosques can give us an alternative historiography of 19th century Ottoman mosque architecture. This dissertation offers a contextual examination of the political and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire in the 1660s and 1670s through the lens of the biography of Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (d.

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At the peak of its power, this global empire governed nearly a quarter of Europe’s land area – modern Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary and Greece – and took in large chunks of the Middle East, including the Muslim holy places of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, to north Africa. It also shows the interaction of various Islamic contexts (Ottoman, Egyptian and Algerian) in the governance strategy of the non-Muslims.

They also address the epistemological and methodological challenges to a unified historiography of the Caucasus arising from the absence, near absence, fragmentation, or unevenness of credible historical records, especially on Caucasian Albania, the Khazar Khaganate, the Genghizid Empire and other Turkic tribal confederations, as well as the existence of diverse and conflicting ethno-centric historiographical traditions.