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Apr 24, 2007 · Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Paperback – April 24, 2007. by Caroline Finkel (Author) 4.2 417 ratings. See all formats and editions. The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history.
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long-awaited textbook on Ottoman history from the genesis of the empire to its demise with abundant primary sources and updated scholarly input of the last three decades.
Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this book takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview
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Jan 1, 2001 · The book is broken up into four parts, being an outline on Ottoman History, the inner workings of the state, the economic and social realities within the Empire and the intricacies of Ottoman religious and cultural practices.
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Jan 1, 2005 · In this epic history of the Ottoman empire, Finkel chronicles how the dynamic Ottomans emerged from a group of nomads on the Central Asian steppe to an international empire that eventually met its demise.
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Ottoman Empire, Former empire centred in Anatolia.
The Ottoman Empire was named for Osman I (1259–1326), a Turkish Muslim prince in Bithynia who conquered neighbouring regions once held by the Seljūq dynasty and founded his own ruling line c. 1300.
Ottoman troops first invaded Europe in 1345, sweeping through the Balkans. Though defeated by Timur in 1402, by 1453 the Ottomans, under Mehmed II (the Conquerer), had destroyed the Byzantine Empire and captured its capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul), which henceforth served as the Ottoman capital.
Under Selim I (r. 1512–20) and his son Süleyman I (the Magnificent; r. 1520–66), the Ottoman Empire reached its greatest peak. Süleyman took control of parts of Persia, most of Arabia, and large sections of Hungary and the Balkans. By the early 16th century the Ottomans had also defeated the Mamlūk dynasty in Syria and Egypt; and their navy under Barbarossa soon seized control of much of the Barbary Coast.
Beginning with Selim, the Ottoman sultans also held the title of caliph, the spiritual head of Islam.
Ottoman power began to decline in the late 16th century. Ottoman forces repeatedly besieged Vienna. After their final effort at taking the Austrian capital failed (1683), that and subsequent losses led them to relinquish Hungary in 1699. Corruption and decadence gradually undermined the government. In the late 17th and 18th centuries the Russo-Turkish Wars and wars with Austria and Poland further weakened the empire, which in the 19th century came to be called the “sick man of Europe.” Most of its remaining European territory was lost in the Balkan Wars (1912–13).
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Here journalist Alev Scott, author of the very wistful travelogue, Ottoman Odyssey, recommends books that help bring alive an empire that was multicultural and multireligious, and whose legacy can still be felt around the Balkans, the Middle East and parts of Africa.
