Ottoman Empire: The Tulip Age and Start of Reform of the Ottoman Empire (Winter 2024)

Ottoman Empire: The Tulip Age and Start of Reform of the Ottoman Empire (Winter 2024)This course shall chart some of the issues known in orientalist works as the Ottoman Decline thesis. We shall see how the children of Sulayman al Kanuni attempted to safeguard the Empire, mainly how the last form of fratricide was undertaken and the reason for the end of this practice. While the Sultan would usually be trained outside of the Imperial centre, from this moment, Sultans and their siblings were kept inside the palace as a series of young

Student support will be provided via seminars/tutorials and weekly office hours

(a) the establishment of dynastic rule

help answer important historical questions as to why and how this settler colonial ideology born out of 19th-century European nationalist thought was planted in Palestine

and cyclical state dynamics

January 14

Transition to

February 8

Explaining the political

inter-Muslim rivalries

Afghanistan

October 29

Islamic PT interacting with premodern