The Ottoman sultan who changed America. America, Protestantism and coffee all have a Muslim history. August 20, 2020 (iStock) Perspective by Alan Mikhail.

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

By the 16th century, Ottoman rule extended to the Balkans from Greece to the border of Austria, the Arab East, North Africa, Crimea, Hungary, and, at times, parts of Italy, Sicily, Poland and Ukraine.

The Hospice Khassaki Sultan was established in 1552 and named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's wife, also known as Sultana Roxelana (1502-1558 AD), along with many other ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922 ...

The Ottoman sultan himself ensured that the administrative system of Mount Athos was preserved and safeguarded," he said. Even before that, Niehoff-Panagiotidis added, ...

The epithet ‘magnificent’ invites us to believe the Ottoman sultan could do no wrong. But he broke with precedent on several occasions and his private life came in for criticism.

The fez, a traditional Ottoman hat for men, was outlawed, and the Islamic veil discouraged, seen as a backward relic of the past. The written language was switched to the Latin alphabet from the ...

Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts. IE 11 is not supported.