Divan of Istanbul. A Brief History of the Ottoman Empire.
Payot| N° d'inventaire | 22234 |
| Format | 11 x 17 |
| Détails | 229 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782228911498 |
An immense territory, stretching from Algiers to Mecca and from Baghdad to Belgrade. A military power and glorious sultans: Bayezid, who annihilated the Christians at Nicopolis in 1396; Mehmed the Conqueror, who seized Constantinople in 1453; Suleiman the Magnificent, who besieged Vienna in 1529. A tyrannical regime, ruled by the divan, a council held seated or on horseback. An official religion: Islam, but also millions of Christians and Jews. A guarantor of peace in the Balkans, the Near East, and North Africa. And facing it: the West, fascinated and fearful. From the Seljuks in the 11th century to Mustafa Kemal in the 20th century, Alessandro Barbero recounts ten centuries of Ottoman history to shed another light on the so-called "clash of civilizations."
An immense territory, stretching from Algiers to Mecca and from Baghdad to Belgrade. A military power and glorious sultans: Bayezid, who annihilated the Christians at Nicopolis in 1396; Mehmed the Conqueror, who seized Constantinople in 1453; Suleiman the Magnificent, who besieged Vienna in 1529. A tyrannical regime, ruled by the divan, a council held seated or on horseback. An official religion: Islam, but also millions of Christians and Jews. A guarantor of peace in the Balkans, the Near East, and North Africa. And facing it: the West, fascinated and fearful. From the Seljuks in the 11th century to Mustafa Kemal in the 20th century, Alessandro Barbero recounts ten centuries of Ottoman history to shed another light on the so-called "clash of civilizations."