Marc Baer: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

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Author Marc Baer in conversation with Philip Mansel.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans.
Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic and Byzantine heritage; how they used both religious toleration and conversion to integrate conquered peoples; and how, in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the dynasty’s demise after the First World War. Upending Western concepts of the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Reformation, this account challenges our understandings of sexuality, orientalism and genocide.
Radically retelling their remarkable story, The Ottomans is a magisterial portrait of a dynastic power, and the first to truly capture its cross-fertilisation between East and West.

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[@venkataraghotham7586]

There were no Khans in the Ottoman Empire Only the Mughals and Safavids had tgis title I am curious why this word in the title

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The Ottoman rulers used the title 'Khan' along with 'Caesar' and 'Caliph'

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[@mohammedsuhail4008]

@@marcbaer5940 Hi sir, a great fan of your books. Have been reading your book'The Ottomans'. It's wonderful very easy to understand as a teenager. I'm even reading it now. I have a small request. Can you write a book about the mughal too. Sorry if I have disturbed you on writing a book about mughal while you are a ottoman history professor.At the least, can you kindly answer this question:1)Are the Ottomans and Mughals related in any way? If they are how are they related? 2)There are many Khan's in India, Pakistan and many parts of the world but from where did the Khan's originate from?and if the ottomans were khan's, are the khans in South Asia and in Central Asia and turkey are the same?