The Origins of the Ottoman Empire

By Mehmed Fuad Köprülü and M. Fuad Koprulu

Book Overview

Gives the first broad comprehensive account-political, religious, social, and economic-of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlines the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.

In The Origins of the Ottoman Empire, K pr l criticized as unscientific the prevailing Western explanations of the origins of the Ottoman Empire. Leiser's translation from the Turkish reveals K pr l 's modern historiographic method, and his unique contribution in describing the nature of the relevant Muslim sources. Using these and other references, K pr l gave the first broad comprehensive account-political, religious, social, and economic-of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlined the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791408205
• ISBN13: 9780791408209
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher