Between 1900 and 1922, the Ottoman Empire went from a fading superpower to complete collapse undone by internal strife, World ...

Davutoglu has been the chief architect of Turkey's neo-imperial foreign policy that envisions a far greater role for this pro-western Islamic ... in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire.

This documentary delves into the Sultanate of Women, a transformative period in Ottoman history when royal women held unprecedented political influence. From within the imperial harem, mothers, ...

Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell. One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.

The Ottoman empire lasted almost 600 years, from the early 1300s until the aftermath of the first world war. The word Ottoman derives from the Arabic version of Osman – the name of its first ruler .

Thus, the Ottoman Empire, while it lasted, solved a problem that would bedevil the entire 20th century into the 21st. The problem of Greater Syria still hasn’t been solved. With the recent collapse of ...

The Ottoman Empire, which imploded in the wake of World War I, controlled a vast geographical region known as Greater Syria. Greater Syria had no legal basis but everyone was able to identify it.

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 ...

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

Gingeras, a historian of the Middle East who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., has written five other books on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, among them the somewhat ...

In his new book, “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World,” the historian Alan Mikhail writes: “Whether politicians, pundits and traditional ...