Week 2 : Rum, Ottoman Birth
January 18-20
Detail of the entrance
of the Ince Minare Medresse, Konya. c. 1260-1265 CE
Please read Cahen, Inalcik,
or Lindner; fill out form on article read. Due Sunday January 23.
Read also: Imber,
The Ottoman Empire, pp. 1-8; Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern
Europe, pp. 1-37.
- Claude
Cahen , "The Birth of Turkey" from his
Pre-Ottoman Turkey. Study guide for Cahen
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Halil Inalcik , "The Question of
the Emergence of the Ottoman State," in International Journal of Turkish
Studies, II/1980, 71-79. Study guide for Inalcik .
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Rudi Lindner , "The Tent of Osman,
The House of Osman," from his Nomads and Ottomans . Study guide for
Lindner .