{"product_id":"origins-of-the-ottoman-empire-the","title":"Origins of the Ottoman Empire, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eby M. Fuad \u003cspan\u003eKöprülü\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated and Edited by Gary Leiser\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis short book quickly dismisses the legends surrounding the rise of the House of Osman in favor of a much more plausible narrative. While the other post-Seljuk Beyliks boxed themselves into Anatolia, only the Ottomans had room to expand — into Byzantium.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGives the first broad comprehensive account―political, religious, social, and economic―of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlines the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Origins of the Ottoman Empire, Köprülü criticized as unscientific the prevailing Western explanations of the origins of the Ottoman Empire. Leiser's translation from the Turkish reveals Köprülü's modern historiographic method, and his unique contribution in describing the nature of the relevant Muslim sources. Using these and other references, Köprülü gave the first broad comprehensive account-political, religious, social, and economic-of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlined the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eState University of New York Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NAASR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52594969805087,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/naasr.org\/products\/origins-of-the-ottoman-empire-the","provider":"NAASR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}