Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Türkiye and the wider Muslim world celebrate the fifth anniversary of the reconversion of the ...

In Italy too, during a July within Bein HaMetzarim, a decree was issued that would forever alter the life of a Jewish ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

Mehmed II, known as "The Conqueror," transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant Muslim superpower through military genius, administrative reform, and the monumental conquest of Constantinople.

Even Niall Ferguson, an apologist for the West’s colonial depredations, is forced to concede that the ‘decline of the West is ...

Every day, ferries of all shapes and sizes glide across the waters of Istanbul, their wakes intertwining to form intricate ...

Known as the Landshut Wedding, the festival takes places in the scenic Bavarian town of Landshut. The event acknowledges not ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

The early 1600s, however, gave rise to an extraordinary phenomenon: the Sultanate of Women. It marked a period when some wives, mothers, sisters, and even grandmothers of the sultans exerted ...