Mostafa Minawi: OTTOMAN EMPIRE, Osman I, Janissaries, Imperial Harem, Golden Age | Eurotrash Ep 8

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Dr. Mostafa Minawi BIO: Mostafa Minawi is an associate professor of history at Cornell University and the director of the Critical Ottoman and Post-ottoman studies. He is the author of "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz", as well as the very recent "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire". His short video ‘The rise of the Ottoman Empire’ he made with TED-Ed has almost a million views on Youtube and is just the coolest introduction into the history of the Ottoman Empire.

We talk about the founding dream of Osman I, the Janissaries, the power of the Imperial Harems and the Golden Age of Istanbul.

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- Losing Istanbul: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=3...
- The rise of the Ottoman Empire TED-Ed: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc...

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Osman I
10:07 The founding of Empire
11:40 Constantinople vs Istanbul
16:14 Sultans and Caliphs
20:11 Justification for Conquests
24:41 Slavery
31:12 Janissaries
38:00 The Imperial Harem
43:46 Imperial conceptions of beauty
46:50 Ottomans and race
48:44 Tolerance
55:10 Istanbul during the Golden Age
01:02:48 The problem with the word "decline"
01:10:52 The Trashy Question
01:13:16 Losing Istanbul