THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Its Rise, Decline and Collapse

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The Ottoman Empire bureaucratized Islamic legal practices of preceding periods by making law an essential component of the state's administrative

ottoman empire With the conquest of the Mamluk empire in 1517, the Ottomans ruled over the most powerful state in the Islamic world  In the west, the Ottomans ruled over the northern parts of the Sahara Desert, where cities dotted the coast of the Mediterranean To the south, Ottoman power a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until

d sport stadium The Ottoman state based its authority on religion The first warrior-sultans expanded the empire in the name of Islam Sultans claimed the title of caliph, or