Ottoman Odyssey – Travels Through a Lost Empire
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Name: Ottoman Odyssey – Travels Through a Lost Empire
Format: epub
Size: 4.44 MB
Book:
Title: Ottoman Odyssey
Author: Alev Scott
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: Epub3
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9781643130750
Total pages: 320
Description:
An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East.
The author’s odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago-and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that’s vital and relevant; where medieval ethnic diversity meets twenty-first century nationalism-and displaced people seek new identities.It’s a story of surprises. An acolyte of Erdogan in Christian-majority Serbia confirms the wide-reaching appeal of his authoritarian leadership. A Druze warlord explains the secretive religious faction in the heart of the Middle East. The palimpsest-like streets of Jerusalem’s Old Town hint at the Ottoman co-existence of Muslims and Jews. And in Turkish Cyprus, Alev Scott…
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