When empires fall, they tend to stay dead ... distinctively Islamic government began to falter. The Ottoman Empire, whose ruler claimed to lead the Islamic world as caliph, adopted a series ...

What was the secret of their success, and what ultimately caused the empire's fall? How do the Ottomans ... three pillars of Ottoman inheritance: Byzantium, Islam, Mongols; the origins and rise of the ...

In the 17th century, Shabtai Tzvi declared himself the Jewish Messiah, igniting a fervent movement that spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire. With the backing of Nathan of Gaza, a prominent ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...