The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

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Traditional European accounts of Ottoman rule tend to emphasise religion rather than secular matters in line with the significance attached to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

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As the Portuguese and Spanish were colonising the Americas, the Ottoman's were projecting their power and controlling oceangoing trade from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. The chapter addresses the major political and cultural shifts resulting from the interaction between the Caucasus’ multiple social and political structures, institutions and norms and powerful external influences, including the Byzantines, Muslim Arabs, Khazars, Seljuks, Mongols, Ottomans and Safavids. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. As the first Ottoman capital on European soil, Edirne was a place of great importance for diplomats of the Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa).

His book criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Conservative, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The National, and the Daily Star. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. Applying the traditional virtue literature on the Ottoman dynasty he presented in this pamphlet one of the Western-minded Ottoman sultans as an ideal caliph-sultan. The reconstruction of Armenian-Jewish relations in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries is not an easy task due to the scarcity of historical material. Being concerned with a wide variety of geographical areas, including the Ottoman capital Istanbul, provincial settings like Ottoman Palestine, and also Egypt, Bosnia, Crimea, the Persian realm and Poland-Lithuania, this volume gives transepochal and transregional insights in the production, transmission, and translation of knowledge.

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H. Auden (Introduction) Increase Quantity of The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard, W. Both peoples underwent resettlement, segregation, coercive conversions under Muslim rule (fighting the side-effects of religious policies for social disciplining), political agendas, the influx of Catholic missionaries, and interstate wars throughout the Safavid to Qajar periods. It also shows the interaction of various Islamic contexts (Ottoman, Egyptian and Algerian) in the governance strategy of the non-Muslims.The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times: Continuities, Disruptions and Reconnections (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. At the peak of its power, this global empire governed nearly a quarter of Europe’s land area – modern Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary and Greece – and took in large chunks of the Middle East, including the Muslim holy places of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, to north Africa. This article challenges this assumption, based on a binary between Westernization reforms versus Islamic conservatism.