Ottomans Books
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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,523 ratings — published 2005
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,989 ratings — published 2021
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,038 ratings — published 2020
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,133 ratings — published 1973
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,018 ratings — published 2015
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 7,039 ratings — published 2008
The Enemy At the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,417 ratings — published 2009
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,444 ratings — published 2005
Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 322 ratings — published 1995
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,810 ratings — published 2015
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 511 ratings — published 2010
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9,977 ratings — published 1989
The Ottoman Empire, 1300 - 1650: The Structure of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 228 ratings — published 1994
Ottoman Wars, 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged (Modern Wars In Perspective)
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avg rating 3.95 — 44 ratings — published 2007
The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 65 ratings — published 2008
The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 24)
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avg rating 3.73 — 131 ratings — published 1998
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 266 ratings — published 1993
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 62,353 ratings — published 1998
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.57 — 21 ratings — published 2007
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History)
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avg rating 3.75 — 406 ratings — published 2000
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 78 ratings — published 2019
The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 66 ratings — published 2021
The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 308 ratings — published 2010
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,037 ratings — published 1976
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,574 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 83 ratings — published 2008
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 17,189 ratings — published 2013
Sultan Abdul Hamid II - The Last Great Ottoman Sultan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 17 ratings — published
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought: Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 82 ratings — published 1997
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 316 ratings — published 2024
The Balkan Reconquista and Turkey's Forgotten Refugee Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published
The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-13 (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 38)
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avg rating 3.89 — 28 ratings — published 2007
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it (Library of Ottoman Studies)
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avg rating 3.71 — 89 ratings — published 2004
Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 39 ratings — published
البلاد العربية في ظل الحكم العثماني 1516-1800 (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.83 — 64 ratings — published 2008
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (Studies in Environment and History)
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avg rating 3.58 — 40 ratings — published 2011
Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 94 ratings — published 1995
Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published 1953
Scholars and Sultans in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 118 ratings — published 1997
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies)
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avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published
The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World (Library of Ottoman Studies)
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avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (Essays in World History)
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avg rating 3.66 — 90 ratings — published 2010
Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 793 ratings — published 2009
Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
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avg rating 4.27 — 22 ratings — published 2013
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 462 ratings — published 1995
The Dark Angel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,652 ratings — published 1952
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 1: Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280 - 1808 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 74 ratings — published 1976
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Volume 2: Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808 - 1975 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 1977
“Whisper it softly, but many Greeks, including clergy, welcomed the Ottomans. On the whole Muslim rulers have been much more tolerant of infidels than their Christian counterparts have. As long as their subjects paid taxes and provided recruits to the harems and armies of the Sultan, they could have whatever religion they liked. Only when they joined religion with revolt did scimitars and stakes come out. Orthodox Christianity was under far greater threat from the Roman variety imposed by Venetians and Franks and Catalans. Jews too were safer from pogrom under the crescent than the cross. This is not a line of thought that goes down well in Greek company.”
― It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
― It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of independence or storming of a bastille. The simplest explanations are often the most convincing: that year corresponds to the years 699–700 in the Islamic calendar. By rare mathematical coincidence, the centuries turned at the same time in both the Christian and Islamic calendars. What more auspicious year to mark the founding of an empire that spanned Europe and the Middle East?”
― Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
― Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire


