Mehmed Emin Pasha was born a Jew in Germany, converted to Christianity and then Islam on his way to being named a ruler of an Ottoman province.

A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania In Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Traitor’s Niche,” the quest for a rebel pasha’s head becomes a grimly comic comment on 20th-century authoritarianism.

Ottoman sovereignty over the Muslim holy city of Mecca began in 1517 after the conquest of the Mamluk Empire under Sultan Selim I, who duly took on the office of caliph. The subsequent Turkish ...

View Crimean War. General György Kmety, known in the Ottoman army as Ismail Pasha, and officers by Roger Fenton on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Roger Fenton.

Archaeological excavations in the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale, Turkey uncovered a 366-year-old castle bath built by Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, a significant figure of the Ottoman ...

Emin Pasha was a “True Ottoman Citizen” and served as an Ottoman Statesman and scholar.

Egypt has inaugurated a newly restored Ottoman mosque, built by the 16th century governor Suleyman Pasha al-Khadim, that lies within the citadel that has dominated Cairo's skyline for centuries.

A military history of Egypt in the era of Ismail Pasha (1863-1879). Soon after becoming the Ottoman governor (later khedive) of Egypt in 1805, Mohammed Ali Pasha initiated a series of reforms that, ...

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 ...