Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 75, No. 1 (2012), pp. 87-111 (25 pages) This article examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman sources for ...

While we often think directly to the British Empire when we reflect on imperialist looting, other empires made noteworthy seizures of culturally significant art and artifacts too. Albeit lesser in ...

Until recently, historians tended to view the Ottoman Empire (1288-1922) as irreducibly “Oriental,” trapped in an outdated civilizational and evolutionary cocoon from which all its virtues and ...