Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman EmpireThe Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work the first definitive account written for the general reader renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0860375340

which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered

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"I have this great story to tell but…

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and social aspects of these five central practices of Islamic worship in the context of our modern age of globalization

Hardcover: 320 pages

The Kiitab device

The Surah (chapter) challenges the reader to formulate a new concept of the universe and its relationship with its Creator as being like that of a kingdom with respect to a king

Illustrator: Anait Semirdzhyan

like that of his illustrious mashai’ikh

spiritual retreats (i ‘tikaf)