Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman EmpireThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work-the first definitive account written for the general reader-renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of the Ottoman Empire from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction in the twentieth. |
Contents
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3 An imperial vision 48 | 48 |
4 Sultan of the faithful 81 | 81 |
5 Possessor of the kingdoms of the world 115 | 115 |
6 The sedentary sultan 152 | 152 |
7 Government by faction 196 | 196 |
8 Revenge of the pashas 223 | 223 |
12 The power of the provinces 372 | 372 |
13 From the New Order to the Reordering 413 | 413 |
14 A crisis of identity 447 | 447 |
15 The Islamic empire 488 | 488 |
16 The storm before the calm 526 | 526 |
Sultans of the Ottoman Empire 555 | 555 |
Chronology 557 | 557 |
Notes 573 | 573 |
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Abaza Abdülaziz Abdülhamid Abdülmecid Agha Ahmed Pasha allies Anatolia appointed Arab Armenian Austria Balkans Bayezid became Belgrade Black Sea Bosporus Byzantine caliph campaign Çelebi century Christian command conquest Constantinople Cossacks Crimean Danube Defterdar San dynasty Edirne Efendi Egypt emirate Emperor empire’s envoy Evliya Çelebi Fazìl Ahmed fleet forces fortress frontier governor grand vezir Habsburg harem Hasan Holy Hungary Hüseyin Ibrahim Pasha imperial Iran Islamic Isma‘il Istanbul janissaries Kara Karaman Karamanid Kìzìlbas Köprülü Mehmed Köprülü Mehmed Pasha lands Mahmud Mamluk Mehmed II Mehmed Pasha Mehmed’s military mosque Murad Murad III Muslim Mustafa II Mustafa Pasha non-Muslims ofthe Orthodox Osman Ottoman army Ottoman dynasty Ottoman Empire Pasa peace political Prince province rebellion rebels reforms reign religious Rumeli Russia Safavid sent Shah Sheikhulislam siege Silahdar Süleyman Sultan Mehmed Sultan Selim Syria Tanzimat Tatars territory throne tion Topkapì Palace treaty troops Turkish Turks uprising Uzun Venetian Venice
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Page 637 - Ahd-names. The Historical Background and the Development of a Category of PoliticalCommercial Instruments together with an Annotated Edition of a Corpus of Relevant Documents, EJOS 1/2, 1998, 1-698 (= Internetpublikation http://www.let.uu.nl/oosters/EJOS/EJOS- 1 .html.) 327.
Page 27 - This emperor always walked with his men, dressed alike and in one colour, namely white, in long robes cut like tabards ; he finding fault with the many fashions and distinctions in dress of the English \ wherein he said that fickleness and changeable temper was betokened. No razor touched head or beard of his chaplains. These Greeks were most devout in their church services, which were joined in as well by soldiers as by priests, for they chanted them without distinction in their native tongue.