According to Adefarasin, Nigeria was formed to serve British financial agendas, citing agreements between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Empire. Adefarasin disputes the notion that Obafemi Awolowo, ...

In just 8 years, Selim I reshaped the Islamic world—defeating rivals, conquering vast lands, and claiming the caliphate. This ...

Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, has stirred heated national debate after declaring during a recent sermon that “Nigeria was never in God’s plan.” Speaking to his ...

An imagined community Ukraine is an Eastern European territory that was originally part of the western part of the Russian Empire and the eastern portion ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States is a white clapboard ...

Discover the fascinating history of the Ottoman Empire in this animated video, tracing its rise, peak, and eventual decline.

Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the ...

The storied past of a bejeweled dagger long thought to have belonged Henry VIII is the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Whether true or a coincidence, it refers to a historical episode that took place four centuries earlier, on September 11, 1683, during the second siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire: the Battle of ...

Finkel, a long-time resident of Turkey and Ottoman scholar, relates a "new" narrative of empire that properly accounts for the richness and complexity of the Ottoman state over nearly seven centuries.

In this diligent and rather dry general history, Imber, a lecturer at the University of Manchester, charts the Ottoman Empire from its birth, circa 1300, through its zenith in the reign of ...

The Frist Art Museum to present Venice and the Ottoman Empire, an exhibition that explores the artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four ...