Assigned Readings:

Imber, chapter 1, section titled "The Apogee of Empire, 1512-1590," and chapters 8 and 9.

The above article is one excerpt from a larger work by Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Oxford UP, 2010). Please read further!

Primary Source: Sidi Ali Reis, Mirʾātüʾl-memālik (The Mirror of Countries), trans. Charles Horne.

Seminar Questions:

• Is it helpful to characterize the great power rivalries of this period as a clash between Islam and Christendom?
• Did the Ottomans participate in the Age of Discovery?

Further Reading:

Palmira Brummett, Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery (State University of New York Press, 1994).

Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration (Oxford UP, 2010).

Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (London: IB Tauris, 2013).

Rhoads Murphey, Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 (UCL Press, 1999).

Rhoads Murphey, “Süleyman I and the Conquest of Hungary: Ottoman Manifest Destiny or a Delayed Reaction to Charles V's Universalist Vision," Journal of Early Modern History 5 (2001).