Rising from relative obscurity as a minor regional power in Northwestern Anatolia, the Ottoman dynasty would usher in a period of remarkable territorial expansion, coupled with rapid advancements in ...

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: عثمانلو پادشاهی; Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire ...

Introduction -- 1. The establishment and survival of Ottoman rule in the Arab lands, 1516-1798 -- 2. Institutions of Ottoman rule -- 3. Economy and society in the early modern era -- 4. A world of ...

In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four ...

Why study Ottoman history? -- The Ottoman Empire from its origins until 1683 -- The Ottoman Empire, 1683-1798 -- The nineteenth century -- The Ottomans and their wider world -- Ottoman methods of rule ...

A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

A man walks near the Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Built between 1463 and 1470, it was designed to “project the political authority and power of the court,” Diana Darke writes. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) ...

Suleyman the Magnificent had his hand on Christendom’s throat. He could paralyze all of Europe’s trade at the drop of a Turkish turban and had more Christian subjects massed under his rule than any ...