Title: The Ottoman Empire
Subtitle: the classical age, 1300-1600
First published: 1973
Description: A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern culture as it grew from a military principality to the world's most powerful Islamic state. He paints a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life, as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial, and land policies. "...masterly...Halil Inalcik is one of the foremost living students of Ottoman history...Read this book..."--Times Literary Supplement.
Subjects: History, Economic conditions, Medieval Civilization, Civilization, medieval, Turkey, history
Places: Turkey
Time periods: 1453-1683, 1288-1453, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918, 1288-1918