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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,547 ratings — published 2005
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,016 ratings — published 1998
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,056 ratings — published 1989
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,149 ratings — published 1973
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,875 ratings — published 2015
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,086 ratings — published 2021
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,571 ratings — published 2005
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,038 ratings — published 1976
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.91 — 517 ratings — published 2010
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,030 ratings — published 2015
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,114 ratings — published 2008
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,957 ratings — published 1964
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,568 ratings — published 2009
The Architect's Apprentice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,340 ratings — published 2013
The Enemy At the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,434 ratings — published 2009
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.25 — 272 ratings — published 1993
Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.35 — 326 ratings — published 1995
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,650 ratings — published 1998
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.27 — 119 ratings — published 1997
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History)
by (shelved 5 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.75 — 409 ratings — published 2000
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,049 ratings — published 2020
Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.04 — 797 ratings — published 2009
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it (Library of Ottoman Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.71 — 89 ratings — published 2004
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,313 ratings — published 2016
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.66 — 50 ratings — published 2016
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.17 — 83 ratings — published 1997
Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.12 — 25 ratings — published 2010
The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 24)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.73 — 131 ratings — published 1998
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.23 — 81 ratings — published 2017
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,334 ratings — published 2013
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,718 ratings — published 2009
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.26 — 315 ratings — published 1581
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,731 ratings — published 2006
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,015 ratings — published 2001
Birds Without Wings (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,695 ratings — published 2004
The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.92 — 311 ratings — published 2010
The Sultan's Seal (Kamil Pasha, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,313 ratings — published 2006
Harem (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,467 ratings — published 1992
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.16 — 338 ratings — published 2024
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 2024
Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition (Phoenix Book)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.62 — 133 ratings — published 1972
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.85 — 246 ratings — published 2022
Nights of Plague (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,472 ratings — published 2021
A History of the Ottoman Empire (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.74 — 160 ratings — published 2017
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.44 — 18 ratings — published 2020
Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.83 — 83 ratings — published 2008
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 3.76 — 79 ratings — published 2019
Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908 (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published 2001
Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ottoman)
avg rating 4.02 — 134 ratings — published 1995
“The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a janissary's frown.”
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“The Sultan is the most powerful man in the world. His supremacy is based on winning wars, yet all the people want is peace. Whether he is adept at this . . . well, that is quite another matter.”
― A Tudor Turk
― A Tudor Turk
