Helen Davey, a 39-year-old mother of two from England, was suffocated to death after an Ottoman bed malfunction and trapper her underneath, raising concerns about the beds.

Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 ...

Architectural transformations in the eighteenth-century Ottoman capital Istanbul are usually interpreted as expressions of an overarching process of cultural westernization that began in the wake of ...

Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The ...