The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It

by Suraiya Faroqhi

Book Overview

In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long-established network of connections - diplomatic, trading and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845111222
• ISBN13: 9781845111229
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"