A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a footnote — a geopolitical order that has long since disintegrated and been relegated to the annals of history, with little ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Forgetting the Ottoman past has done the Arabs no good As a historian of the Ottoman Empire, I believe it is criminal to keep millions of people disconnected from their own recent past.

Step into the harsh realities of life in the Ottoman Empire, where power, punishment, and politics shaped a brutal existence for many. From extreme laws to ruthless royal customs, these five facts ...

Explore the final years of the Ottoman Empire as it crumbled from internal decay, foreign occupation, and nationalist resistance. This first part of the Turkish War of Independence series reveals ...

In the world of reward and risk presided over by the Ottoman emperor, power and peril could be a hair’s breadth apart.

Finkel, a long-time resident of Turkey and Ottoman scholar, relates a "new" narrative of empire that properly accounts for the richness and complexity of the Ottoman state over nearly seven centuries.

Inside All About History 118: Discover how the great sultans built a lasting dynasty that challenged the powers of medieval Europe.

Researchers have begun looking at thousands of the world’s oldest Ottoman documents that paint a picture of what life was like in the early days of the Empire.

(p. xiii), Intended mainly as a textbook for a survey course on Byzantine history, this compact and inexpensive volume, newly revised to reflect current scholarship, serves its purpose admirably. The ...

Mauritian historian Assad Bhuglah evaluated the importance of Mauritian Muslims in the country's history and their relations with the Ottoman Empire. Bhuglah, recognized as one of the country's ...