POLC97H3 Lecture Notes - Sharia, State Organisation Of The Ottoman Empire, Fez
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Islam crystallized some of the arab tribes and they formed a state, which was young and very vibrant, was able to expand, and become an empire, later to expand geographically. At the height of the expansion was from india, some point china, all the way to spain in the west, the largest empire with oil, not always united. The head of the empire, the state, a caliph (sultan), his control has a religious significance, seen as the heir of the prophet, of the faithful. The ottoman empire was the last dynasty to rule and islamic empire. A short movie about the ottoman empire, about the demise and also about the lives and experiences of people of different kinds (3 parts) Https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=8mwphts3gtw: the ottomans allied themselves with germany in ww1, britain allied with russia, ethnic groups were slaughtered (armenians, 1915, world war raged on, allied nations planned to carve up the ottoman empire,
