The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs Baer Marc David
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs Baer Marc David A "panoramic and thought-provoking" (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West…
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs Baer Marc David
A "panoramic and thought-provoking" (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart.
The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. Recounting the Ottomans' remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading