Ottoman Dynasty

#2 The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is sometimes referred to as the “Age of the Ayan”. This was a time were provincial power-holders within the Ottoman Empire played a substantial role in the politics and economics of the state. The empire’s ability to control vast amounts of territory depended to a large degree on the ability of the government to forge alliances with local power elites. Provincial leaders had deep cultural, economic, and social ties within their respective…

As the European nations sought to decrease the power of the Ottoman Empire, they introduced nationalism to the Arabs. The British seduced local Arab leaders to leave the Ottoman Empire and create their own state and Caliphate. The Arabs joined the fight wishing to gain their independence from the Ottomans. They wanted their own identity and a unified Arab region but what happened was the Arabs were separated into mandates governed by the French and British. The promises for Sheriff Hussein were…

The Ottomans were an Empire that lasted from around 1300 C.E. until about 1919 making it one of the longest lasting and richest empires in world history. The Ottomans managed to blend their pastoral nomadic roots with some very un-nomadic empire buildings and some really impressive architecture making them very different than other empires. The empire, or at least the dynasty, was founded by Osman Bey. The term “osman” is a Latin for “House of Osman”. The Ottoman were the greatest in the…

conquering and crisis. In this essay, I will speak about who the Mevlevi Dervishes and Rumi are, and how tribes ended up in Asia minor. Along with, how Othman managed to turn foreigners to reckon with, a list of Ottoman sultans, and what made Constantinople a important city to the Ottoman. The Mevlevi Dervishes was a Sufi order in Konya. In the Sufi path, Dervish is a common term. It means someone guiding a intellectual Muslim down a path. The Mevlevi Dervishes was founded by the followers of…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

poetry, and culture, the Safavid Empire is an intriguing legacy. With an extensive history, several great leaders influenced the Safavid Dynasty greatly; in particular there were four Safavids who molded the dynasty into the great reign it is remembered for today. Sheikh Safi al-Din was the forefather of the Safaviyya Order that then became the Safavid Dynasty that claimed rule over the Aq Qoyunlu in ancient Persia under Shah Ismail. During the golden age of the empire, one of the most…

Over the centuries, two Islamic Empires have been fighting for decades. “”The Ottoman ruler, Selim I sent a letter to the Persian rival, Isma’il I, leader of the Shi’ite Safavid state.””(Sunni versus Shi’ite) “” Isma’il had entered the Ottoman territory and had demanded that Ottoman subjects accept Shi’ism.””(Sunni versus Shi’ite) In response to this Selim I threaten him with this letter. One thing lead to the other and eventually Isma’il I and Selim I had a war. “”Selim I won the battle of…

land, but many more gains. They fought battles against their major enemies, the French and the Ottomans. They married nearly every royal family in Europe, until there was no more room left to expand. With hard work and intelligence, the Habsburgs were able to maintain control of most of the continent for centuries. The Habsburg family originated in present-day Switzerland, where they named their dynasty after the castle they were living in – the Habsburg castle. Werner, who was the second to…

First, the Berbers migrated to Morocco around the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. They were thought to have originated in Asia. Later, the Greeks and Phoenicians devised trading ports on the cost of Morocco, until the Romans conquered. While the Romans were in power, many of the Berbers rebelled and the reaction of the Romans was to cut out their tongues and ship them off to the Canary Islands, where they were later found by the Spanish. The Carthaginians were also in Morocco before the Romans. After…

continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during the late antiquity and the middle ages. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1953. In most of its existence the empire was powerful in economic, cultural and military force in Europe. Both Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are historiographical terms and its citizens refer to their empire…