Ottoman Empire: The Tulip Age and Start of Reform of the Ottoman Empire (Winter 2024) and his successors

and his successors

where they came from

May 3 - June 7

guiding students across a complex landscape of internal strife

January 25 - March 15

Ottoman Empire: The Tulip Age and Start of Reform of the Ottoman Empire (Winter 2024) and his successorsThis course shall chart some of the issues known in orientalist works as the Ottoman Decline thesis. We shall see how the children of Sulayman al Kanuni attempted to safeguard the Empire, mainly how the last form of fratricide was undertaken and the reason for the end of this practice. While the Sultan would usually be trained outside of the Imperial centre, from this moment, Sultans and their siblings were kept inside the palace as a series of young