The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale

Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia. Contents Introduction : an empire of the mind - Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 - Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance : 1520-1536 - Hadim Suleiman Pasha's world war : 1536-1546 - Rustem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean faction : 1546-1561 - Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the apogee of empire : 1561-1579 - A man, a plan, a canal : Mir Ali Beg's expeditions to the Swahili coast : 1579-1589 - The death of politics Summary 'In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim 'the Grim' conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. Object Details Author Casale, Giancarlo Originally published: 2010.

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale