A Cultural History of the Ottomans: The Imperial Elite and Its Artefacts

by Suraiya Faroqhi

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking.Each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784530964
• ISBN13: 9781784530969
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 9.3"