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My goal for my Substack is to make Ottoman and Middle Eastern history more accessible to a general audience.
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What My Course on Ottoman History Covers (opens the original)
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I told you a couple of weeks ago that I’m teaching a live course on Ottoman history this fall. Many of you were kind enough to sign up and show an interest, and I wanted to thank you for your support.I also wanted to share with you the detailed syllabus so that you have a more concrete idea of what the course actually covers.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UxOb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-
Was the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Tolerant? (opens the original)
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My ten-week online course, The Ottomans: An Empire Reconsidered (1300-1800) starts on October 8. We’ll cover everything from the emergence of the empire to the beginning of the reform efforts in the early nineteenth century. If you’d like to learn about Ottoman history in a systematic manner, come join us! You can find the details below.Was the early modern Ottoman Empire tolerant?That depends on whom you ask, and when you ask it.For much of its history, you could make a reasonable case that it
The Mandate System Was Not Invented in Paris (opens the original)
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Hello everyone!I’m excited to share with you the third episode of the Ottoman Encounters Interview Series, where I host historians, researchers, and writers for in-depth conversations on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history.My guest today is Aimee Genell, a historian of the late Ottoman Empire, and we discussed her new book, Empire by Law: The Ottoman Origins of the Mandate System in the Middle East.The conventional narrative presents the mandate system as something Britain and France invented aft
My Course on Ottoman History Is Finally Here (opens the original)
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It’s taken a while, but it is finally here. And I have been looking forward to sharing it with you for a long time. My new online course on the history of the Ottoman Empire.The Ottomans: An Empire Reconsidered (1300–1800) is a ten-week live course on Ottoman history. It begins on Thursday 8 October and runs to 10 December, Thursdays at 7pm UK time, on Zoom.It is modeled on an entry-level university class, and it is designed for a general audience who is intellectually curious about Ottoman and
Ottoman History, From the Ground Up (opens the original)
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In 1633, Sultan Murad IV (r. 1623–1640) ordered the coffeehouses of Istanbul torn down. Ottoman chronicles narrate how he walked the city in disguise and ordered summary executions of anyone whom he caught defying his orders. His efforts made no difference. The coffeehouses outlasted him.I wrote about coffee and coffeehouses in the Ottoman Empire earlier this month. What interests me most here is not the spectacle of a sultan on a rampage. It is the fact that, despite the best efforts of the mos
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