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 ...

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 ...

Caroline Finkel talked about her book [Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire], published by Perseus Books Group. She described the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, looking at the ...

Yale University Department of History chair Alan Mikhail’s new book God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2020) takes a much-welcomed ...

Bookshelf ‘The Ottomans’ Review: Rainbow Empire Historians often cast the Ottoman Empire as Europe’s rival—ignoring the connections between the two.

DHAKA, Bangladesh . Books on the Ottoman Empire are flying off the shelves in Bangladesh amid growing interest in Islamic history and culture of the golden era, say both booksellers and publishers.

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.

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

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 ...