The Ottoman age of exploration Introduction : an empire of the mind Selim the navigator : 1512 1520 Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520 1536 Hadim Suleiman Pashas world war : 1536 1546 Rustem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean faction : 1546 1561 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the apogee of empire : 1561 1579 A man a plan a canal : Mir Ali Begs expeditions to the Swahili coast : 1579 1589 The death of politics