Suraiya Faroqhi: 5 books
A Cultural History of the Ottomans
The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in...
by Suraiya Faroqhi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan - the perceived successor to the Caliphs - supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather...
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire
Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. However Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that...
by Suraiya Faroqhi
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Suraiya Faroqhi schildert knapp, kenntnisreich und lebendig die Geschichte eines der mächtigsten Reiche des späten Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, das noch zu Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts das gesamte Gebiet der heutigen Staaten Türkei, Irak, Syrien, Libanon, Israel sowie Teile Griechenlands umfaßte....
Geschichte der Welt 1350-1750
Weltreiche und Weltmeere
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2014
«Weltgeschichte ist lange Zeit als eine Geschichte des Aufstiegs und Niedergangs einer kleinen Zahl von ‚Hochkulturen‘ geschrieben worden. Unter diesen Kulturen schienen Europa oder der atlantische ‚Westen‘ während der letzten Jahrhunderte nach den Kriterien Macht, Wohlstand und kulturelle...