Gingeras, a historian of the Middle East who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat ...

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 ...

In his new book, “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World,” the historian Alan Mikhail writes: “Whether politicians, pundits and traditional ...

book Bestsellers book PW Best Books ... History of the Ottoman Empire Caroline Finkel, . . Basic, $35 (704pp) ISBN 978-0-465-02396-7. What Finkel calls the "old" narrative of the Ottoman Empire ...

In All About History issue 118, on sale now, you can uncover the origins of the Ottoman Empire, from its first leader, Osman, through to the ascension of one of its greatest leaders, Suleiman the ...

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.

While doing research for his first book “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky visited more than ...

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. Go to navigation Go to main content ...