Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

Of course, there were also crucial differences. In this course you will learn about the main features of these early modern Islamic empires, with an emphasis on the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals.

At that time, the Ottomans integrated Kurdish leaders into their administration, granting them localized autonomy in exchange for their loyalty against the Safavids. The current situation, while ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

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Now, he can channel the spirits of Ottoman Turks along with his rock guitar heroes, like Stevie Ray Vaughn. “Of course, I started exploring some pretty hard distorted sounds as well,” he said ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, an Armenian-American lawyer whose great-grandfather served as an officer and chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, has obtained Turkish citizenship, adopting the name "Murat." ...