Ottoman Empire

Osman I is one of history’s most important leaders; the founder of the Ottoman Empire, which conquered Asia Minor, most of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans before reaching the very walls of Vienna....

Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted

Professor A. K. John, alias al-Dayrani is the best known and most distinguished among the pupils of Scholar Sheikho....

The long agony of the “sick man of Europe”, an expression used by the Tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history. Preserving its mixed heritage, the Ottoman Empire lasted more than six centuries....

Even before World War II, there was a genocide. We are talking about the Armenian deportations that killed between one and two million innocent civilians, an atrocity the Turkish government still doesn’t fully acknowledge....

The fall of the Empire to the hands of the Ottomans acted as a thick, heavy curtain that prevented us from exploring the military, political, financial, and social history of one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen....

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there....

The author of the best-selling Leonardo's Swans traverses the centuries into the hearts of two extraordinary women....

Iron Blood chronicles 300 years of the Kantemir family's intriguing history, taking us to the mystical intrigues of the Ottoman Empire....

Across the Islamic world, the apocalyptic savior figure of the Mahdi has appeared with increasing prevalence in the last few decades....

One out of five people in the world is Muslim; only 18 percent of those, however, are Arab....

In this story, I will explain the life of Prince Mustafa and the betrayal charges made against him by his sultan father. What I will do is take you back to October 6, 1553, and bring forward previously unknown and intriguing events from that day, told in a fictional telling....

This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first modern genocide. Foreigners and Ottomans alike ran considerable risks to bear witness and rescue victims....

The Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years, with a history spanning from the division of the Roman Empire in 395 until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It was formed from the previous Eastern Roman Empire....

In the aftermath of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the British and French moved in to carve up the Middle East in pursuit of ...

The Ottoman Empire lasted more than six centuries. Its soldiers conquered lands on three different continents, making it one of the few stable multi-ethnic empires in history....

In 1453 the collapse of Byzantine Orthodox Christianity's most sacred City, Constantinople, radiated shocks through the entirety of the Christian world....

During his reign, Suleiman the Magnificent guided the Ottoman Empire through its golden age of trade and expansion. His reign changed the face of the world, and he was unlike any other sultan before or after him. This audiobook explains why....

In his letter, Basyuni Imran requested Arsalan to explain the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims of the time compared to other nations. Furthermore, Basyuni asked Arsalan to suggest what they need to do to join the ranks of nations that have overtaken them and, in many cases, rule over them....

In 1877, the Russo-Turkish War is reaching its climax. To protect Britain's interests, an ambitious naval officer, Nicholas Dawlish, is assigned to the Ottoman Navy to ravage Russian supply lines....