Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Sultan Süleyman I is called “the Magnificent” in the West and “the Lawgiver” in Turkey due to the codification of laws, both religious and secular, during his reign. Süleyman’s era is considered the ...

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 ...

Translated by Ali Katebi from English, “The Ottoman Empire” and “Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire” have been published by the Elmi Farhangi Publications in Tehran, ILNA reported. The Ottoman Empire ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Ottoman Empire, which at the ...

This course is available on the MA in Asian and International History (LSE and NUS), MA in Modern History, MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, MSc in History of International Relations, MSc ...

Yale University Department of History chair Alan Mikhail's new book God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2020) takes a much-welcomed fresh ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

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 ...