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 ...

Abdülhamid II’s Tribal School was a strategic soft-power bet that knit far-flung peoples together and paved the groundwork ...

"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 ...

Hundreds of years after Suleiman the Magnificent died in 1566, Hungarian historians believe they may have finally found the tomb of the Ottoman Empire's longest-ruling sultan. It is believed to be ...

In this revelatory and wide-ranging account, Yale historian Mikhail (Under Osman’s Tree) recreates the life of Sultan Selim I (1470–1520) and makes a convincing case for the outsize impact of the ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922. That ...

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 ...

Over the course of the dynamic 19th century, the image of the Ottoman sultan maintained a complex relationship with ideas surrounding the modernisation of the Empire. Image of the Modern Ottoman ...

The emergence of an empire -- Culture: How it was created and disseminated -- The economic and social structure of the Ottoman Empire in early modern times -- Images of the world and the times -- ...

ANKARA, Turkey - Neslisah Osmanoglu, an Ottoman princess who married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when both royal households were abolished, has died. She was 91. Neslisah Sultan ...