Administration, society and intellectual life of the Turkish Empire during the two centuries that followed the capture of Constantinople in 1453.

A pioneering challenge to the orientalist perception of the Islamic city.

Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinati