HIST 2890 Lecture 25: HIST2890 2016-12-01
5 Dec 2016
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Osman was founder of ottoman state by 1320s, they (started off as turkic nomads) established a permanent capital city in bursa first administrative centre, scholars and theologians start traveling there and teaching about islam. Light of byzantine empire put out in 1453 when mehmet ii is able to establish capital in. The gunpowder empires: ottoman empire (1300-1923) Became custodians of sunni islam by taking control of holy cities. Expand all the way across north africa and hungary. Ottomans were predominately christian until 16th century: safavid persia (1501-1722, mughal india (1526-1857) Ottomans got gunpowder technology via hungary in europe, so their frontier with europe helped: uzbek khanate sometimes included as gunpowder empires, commonalities between three empires. Trying to use gunpowder technology to varying degrees with powerful militaries. Come from nomadic turkic or turko-mongolian muslim origins all speak. Sufism plays a role in all empires promoted orthodox view of islam for. Safavids, dynasties emerges out of sufi order which is unusual.
