Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...
An Osaka Metropolitan University historian has found that the Ottoman Empire’s seeming religious tolerance stemmed from ...
Who are these people? The timing of Caroline Finkel’s splendidly written Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire reflects the buoyant state of Ottoman scholarship. Neglected archives have been ...
Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025 ...
The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...
It is one of the only mosques in the region open to non-Muslims and references Mamluk, Ottoman, Fatimid, Moorish and Indo-Islamic styles in its design. The carpet in the main prayer hall is the ...
The latter, still the second largest religious building ever built, is the house of worship dedicated to Amun, Thebes' patron deity and the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire ... cathedral was ...