Kafadar, Cemal - Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State

November 01, 1996

Cemal Kafadar. University of California Press. November, 1996.
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This highly original look at the rise of the Ottoman empire—the longest-lived political entity in human history—shows the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a centralized imperial state that saw itself as both leader of the world's Muslims and heir to the Eastern Roman Empire. Read More...

	Cemal Kafadar Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Prof. Kafadar is interested in social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. He teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publications include 'The Ottomans and Europe, 1400-1600' and a book on the rise of the Ottoman state. Read more...

Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Prof. Kafadar is interested in social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. He teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publications include 'The Ottomans and Europe, 1400-1600' and a book on the rise of the Ottoman state.