Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Douglas E. Streusand
English | October 5th, 2010 | ISBN: 0813313597 | 408 Pages | AZW3 | 3.54 MB
Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires—the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological, institutional, military, and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise, expansion, and ultimate transformation and decline.