Ottoman Lives

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  • The Ottoman Empire lasted for six hundred years and dominated the Middle East and Europe, from Budapest to Baghdad and everything in between. The sultans ruled three continents. But they didn't do it on their own. This podcast looks at the cast of characters who made the empire run: the sultan, the queen mother, the peasant, the janissary, the harem eunuch, the holy man, and the outlaw.
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  • Prologue to Ottoman Lives

    Prologue to Ottoman Lives
    Jun 12 2019
    A few announcements about the series before we begin.

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    1 min
  • The Janissary

    The Janissary
    Jun 14 2019
    In this first episode we look at the person of the Janissary, who was part of the most elite fighting force in late medieval Europe and personal bodyguard to the Ottoman Sultan. They were technically slaves to the sultan who born as Christians, taken from their homes at early ages, converted to Islam, and went on to incredible military careers by conquering much of Southeast Europe and eventually Constantinople itself in 1453. Learn how this organization functioned, what it was like to be recruited in the Janissaries, and how they came to an end in the 1800s.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Sultan

    The Sultan
    Jun 17 2019
    The office of the sultan changed dramatically over the six centuries of the Ottoman Empire. The first sultan, Osman, was a medieval nomadic chieftain whose domains existed on the edge of the Byzantine Empire. He and his party accumulated wealth through plundering raids. The 10th sultan, Suleyman, was an emperor in every sense of the word and conquered much of Central Europe in the sixteenth century. The final powerful sultan, Abdulhamit II (r. 1876-1909) was an autocratic reformer who covered the empire with railroad lines, telegraph networks, and schools that taught French and calculus alongside Islamic theology.

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    44 mins

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An Entertaining, Approachable, and Holistic Entry to Ottoman History

This series does a service to dilettantes of Ottoman history who have always wanted to learn more, but did not know where to begin. I recommend this podcast to newcomers who may have some grounding in Islamic or European history, but neither is by any means a requirement.

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