One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

The newly unveiled 'Ottoman Historical Literature' catalogs thousands of historical works and manuscripts from across the ...

Thinking about getting a Middle Eastern Studies degree? Mehmet Durmaz, a master's student at Harvard is here to tell you why ...

Crescent Dawn is a highly readable and well researched military and political history of the Ottoman empire during its rise. The book is illustrated with eight clear maps, several family trees, and a ...

When The Promise arrives in theaters on Friday, the film — starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale — will do so just in time: its dramatization of a story that takes place amid the ...

What Finkel calls the "old" narrative of the Ottoman Empire is simple to relate: "it rose, declined, and fell." An exotic parade of salacious sultans, grand viziers and duplicitous eunuchs inhabit the ...

"Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art From the Khalili Collection," opening today at the Asian Art Museum, brings attention to a diverse multicultural civilization that produced its fair share of ...

Nevertheless, the suffering of the Assyrians is largely forgotten internationally and not recognized as genocide, which embitters the descendants of the victims. This ancient civilized nation forced ...