THE INNOVATIVE OTTOMANS

How a commitment to openness helped push the boundaries of science and commerce

Jonathan Gordon

THE OTTOMANS A CULTURAL LEGACY BY DIANA DARK IS AVAILABLE NOW FROM THAMES & HUDSON EXPERT BIO DIANA DARKE Diana Darke is a Middle East cultural expert with degrees in Arabic from Oxford University and in Islamic Art & Architecture from SOAS, London. Her writings on Islamic history and culture include Stealing from the Saracens (2020), The Merchant of Syria (2018) and The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy (2022). We frequently silo our study of history in order to make it manageable and to stop our interests from sprawling. Why contain yourself to the history of the Romans when it crosses over so much with the Gauls and Carthaginians? Why only study the Soviet Union when its actions were so heavily influenced by activities in Western Europe and the United States?…

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