Prof. Cornell H. Fleischer, a world-renowned expert of Ottoman history and scholar of the greater Islamic world, passed away in Chicago on April 21. He was 72. Known for his prowess with languages and ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

Erol Makzume preserves the legacy of European painters in Ottoman lands, transforming archives, canvases and biographies into ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...

Cornell Fleischer, who specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Islamic world at the University of Chicago, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — frequently referred to as the ...

Suleyman the Magnificent had his hand on Christendom’s throat. He could paralyze all of Europe’s trade at the drop of a Turkish turban and had more Christian subjects massed under his rule than any ...

“In the Kızlan Ottoman Wreck Underwater Excavation, weapons, porcelain, chess sets, and unique findings illuminating history have recently been uncovered,” said Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister ...

Rise of Empires: Ottoman is yet another Netflix original docuseries that seeks to spice up history with lavish dramatic reenactments, sexy visuals, and over-the-top battle sequences. Like the Roman ...

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...