The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

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Additionally, the roots of Islam are discussed as they tie into the advent of the Ottomans and their influence on the advancement of the European nation-states that comprised Christendom. A thought-provoking and accessible guide to the history of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th to the 20th century , which at its peak spanned three continents, stretching from North Africa to the Caucasus and from Meca to Budapest. Several examples of bestowing of robe of honour on the Franciscan leaders in the later period indicate that they were, at least occasionally, officially treated and recognized as state servants, despite being contrary to sharia-based sumptuary laws for non-Muslims.

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In the telling of Marc David Baer, it has, and his book is a conscious effort to rebalance the portrayal of the Ottomans. The Ottomans first ruled a principality (or a sultanate) which became an empire in the true sense of the word in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. Chronological chapters focused on successive rulers are followed by thematic ones addressing cultural issues, messianic depictions of the sultan, the rise of the Ottomans as a maritime power and attitudes to women, Jews and eunuchs in dynastic politics.Secondly and more assertively it argues that this secularization process did not evoke a serious struggle between the religious and political authorities as it did in the West thanks to the political conventions and legal characteristics the Ottoman state carried along from its very beginning on. Inevitably in books like this, the narrative shoals for long, wonderful stretches on personal stories.

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As the first Ottoman capital on European soil, Edirne was a place of great importance for diplomats of the Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa).This article challenges this assumption, based on a binary between Westernization reforms versus Islamic conservatism. Likewise, Marc David Baer presents the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Discovery from an Ottoman perspective.

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The tale begins in the late 13th century with Osman, the eponymous founder of the Ottoman dynasty – a Muslim Turkic nomad who migrated, with herds of horses, oxen, goats and sheep, to Christian-majority Anatolia, then mainly Armenian or Greek.Suleiman I 'the Magnificent' allied with Protestant rebels against their mutual enemy, the Catholic Habsburgs. The chapter on this, and related atrocities committed during the First World War, is very powerful, in particular his recounting of the testimony of a rare Armenian female survivor of a death march to the Syrian desert.