‘A History of the Ottoman Empire’ by Douglas A. Howard (Cambridge University Press, 393 pages, $35) Ottoman history has rarely been more popular in Turkey than it is today. It has also rarely been ...

A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Itzkowitz transferred to emeritus status in 2001 after 42 years on the faculty. Itzkowitz’s scholarship covered a range of topics and periods in ...

The iconic Battle of Mohács was a watershed moment in Ottoman, Hungarian, and European history. I delved in Hungary's ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

In examining a dynastic jewelry collection, art historian and novelist Gül İrepoğlu’s latest book reveals that as the Ottoman Empire approached its end, jewelry manufactured at the time decreased in ...

Historic gateway near Sea of Marmara reflects centuries of architectural evolution, with restoration inscriptions dating to 18th-century Ottoman sultans | Anadolu ...

Some peoples suffer from crises of ethnicity, ideology and sometimes culture that extend from their early origins. Therefore, some issues of history are problematic for them. History may not cause a ...