In the nineteenth century, distinctively Islamic government began to falter. The Ottoman Empire, whose ruler claimed to lead the Islamic world as caliph, adopted a series of new governing ...

Historians of the Middle East in the long nineteenth century have often considered empire-building the preserve of European powers. This book revises this picture by exploring how the Ottomans ...

Erdogan’s ambitions in Syria go beyond fighting ISIS. Is he laying the foundation for a modern Ottoman Empire?

And the enduring power that we're looking at in this programme is the Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered Constantinople and was moving from being a military power to an ...

For decades, Vatican City has held the title of the world’s smallest country, but this long-standing geographic fact may soon ...

Just as counterfeit products flood the market, so too have counterfeit interpretations of religious texts that have emerged ...

However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul). While the Ottoman Empire ruled the Muslim world ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “Turkey: A Short History” written by Norman Stone has been released in bookstores ...

The show demonstrates that, despite their differences, Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire expressed mutual appreciation for cultural excellence: Giorgione, Titian and the Bellinis ...

Turkish Ambassador to Egypt Salih Mutlu Şen held a seminar on the importance of working closely with Egyptian authorities to ...

And the enduring power that we're looking at in this programme is the Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered Constantinople and was moving from being a military power to an ...