Behind the golden walls of the imperial harem, the real power of the Ottoman Empire often rested with its women. In this ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

It is this struggle that paved the way for the region’s later incorporation into Europe’s global empires of modern times. This course will examine the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, and the ...