This sub-project explores the role of translation in the formation and early stages of the Ottoman-Turkic literary corpus, by juxtaposing this with its role in the development of the Mamluk-Turkic ...

On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying ... the siege as a clash of civilisations between Christianity and Islam, but it wasn't: for one thing, the Turks had an alliance ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire ... is also symptomatic of a broader war of radical Islam against the enlightened world. Within this context ...

Rageh Omaar traces the history of the Ottoman empire. A super-power of a million square miles, it matched the glories of Ancient Rome and collapsed less than a hundred years ago ...