34 results for “ottoman”
Clear filter...of the caliphate for nearly three more centuries, until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 923 AH. The line of Abbasid shadow cal...
...d al-Azhar into a Sunni institution. Under Mamluk and later Ottoman patronage, al-Azhar became one of the foremost centers of S...
...attle of Kosovo was the pivotal engagement that established Ottoman dominance in the Balkans. Sultan Murad I led an Ottoman arm...
...ated the last major multinational crusade organised against Ottoman power in Europe. Pope Boniface IX had called for a crusade ...
The Battle of Ankara was a catastrophic Ottoman defeat at the hands of the Timurid conqueror Timur (Tamerla...
The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II was one of the most momentous events of th...
...tle of Chaldiran was the decisive confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the newly established Safavid dynasty of Persia,...
...amluk Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri marched north to confront the Ottomans with a large cavalry force, but was at a severe disadvanta...
...Battle of Vienna in 1683 was the decisive defeat that ended Ottoman expansion into Central Europe and marked the beginning of t...
...ntine territory into the heartland of what would become the Ottoman Empire.
...Battle of Plocnik was a significant Serbian victory over an Ottoman raiding force in 1386, representing one of the few setbacks...
...they continued their activities. The fall of Rhodes secured Ottoman naval dominance of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Battle of Mohács was one of the most decisive Ottoman victories in Europe, lasting barely two hours yet ending th...
...val engagement of the 16th century and the most significant Ottoman naval defeat, ending Ottoman expansion in the western Medit...
...ticularly in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Ottoman Empire. His major work Kitab al-Tawhid systematized orthodo...
...the Muslim world, sacking Delhi, Baghdad, and defeating the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.
The Ottoman victory at the Battle of Kosovo established Muslim rule in ...
...army will be.' The city was renamed Istanbul and became the Ottoman capital.
...on. This system of religious tolerance became a hallmark of Ottoman governance for centuries and allowed diverse communities to...
The Ottoman Sultan Selim I defeated the Safavid Shah Ismail I, establis...
...uk Sultanate at Marj Dabiq near Aleppo. This victory led to Ottoman control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and M...
Ottoman Sultan Selim I conquered Egypt, ending the Mamluk Sultanate...
Under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith. The empire stretched from Hungar...
Sultan Suleiman I ascended to the Ottoman throne, beginning a 46-year reign that marked the zenith of...
...Magnificent besieged Vienna, marking the furthest extent of Ottoman expansion into Central Europe. Though the siege was unsucce...
The Ottoman navy suffered a significant defeat against a coalition of E...
Mimar Sinan, the greatest Ottoman architect, died in Istanbul. He designed over 300 structure...
The Ottoman siege of Vienna was broken, marking the beginning of Ottoma...
...inting in European languages had existed for centuries, the Ottoman ulama initially resisted printing the Quran and religious t...
The Ottoman Tanzimat reforms attempted to modernize the empire through ...
The Young Turk Revolution restored the Ottoman constitution and established parliamentary government.
Sharif Hussein of Mecca launched the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule during World War I, seeking an independent Arab state.
The Ottoman Empire, having entered World War I on the side of the Centr...
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the Ottoman Caliphate, sending the last caliph Abdulmejid II into exile...