Between 1453 and 1526 years Muslims created two enormous states in the Mediterranean and Asia: the Ottoman and Mughal empires. The Ottoman and Mughal empires played very important role, because they created an imperial cultural land within the broader Islamic civilization. However, the Ottoman and Mughal empires did not intend to set Islam as a dominant role in their politics and culture. Despite Islam contributed to the systems of legitimacy, there were enormous non-Muslim populations within the empires. There was a diversity of religions. Even minorities were protected and allowed to run their own communities. These great empires – the Ottoman and Mughal – shared Central Asian Turkic political traditions and vision of a conquest of political
