How to pronounce “ottoman” in English

The UK didn't actually adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, so a couple hundred years later just about.The Ottoman Empire didn't assume it until 1917.So getting even further along than that.

It used to be beautiful, melodious, almost opera like the recitation of the Quran.The Ottomans and others that mastered, you listen to the prayer call in either Istanbul or in other parts of the Muslim world thathasn't been influenced by extremism, is very melodious and intentionally so.

of that old glory from Moscow.The destruction of the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim empire that the Turks controlled, led to the birth of Islamism.And so it's almost trackable that the destruction of large empires and their peoples feeling loss, humiliation, degradation,

Get rid of them.of the Ottoman Empire, that they ought to be expelled again.

Incidentally, for those who don't know, the clash between Sunni and Shiite Islam today is traceable to some extent, to the factthat the Ottoman Empire-- the green bit is Sunni, and the Safavid Empire, the red, pink, orange bit, is Shiite.So when the Safavids came to power in Iran, they sort of turned Iran Shiite or made

And until very recently, most scholars have only been interested in the kind of line of Islamic philosophy that gets received in the Medieval West.into empires like the Ottoman and Empire, whose political structures still, in a way, structure the contemporary political scene

And until very recently, most scholars have only been interested in the kind of line of Islamic philosophy that gets received in the Medieval West.So the Ottoman Empire, to a large extent, is African.

It was a section of the Austrian Empire that was kind of a military zone, a buffer zone between the Austrian heartlandand the Ottoman or Turkish Empire.And the Austrians, to manage that zone, mixed Muslims and Christians, i.e.

But after-- cuisine of the Middle East --of all Middle East and the Islamic Empire, let's say.But then the Ottomans came in the 15th century, I think.I have a terrible memory.

So they brought with them this dough to the Balkans, where they settled.And the Ottomans came in and took over, like they did a lot of the world at that time.And they started stuffing this laminated pastry with what we think is Bulgarian feta.

as ? Well first, grouping the food, you have distinct regions with influences.The Levant is basically influenced by Ottoman.Let's say Iranian cuisine or Persian cuisine is the mother cuisine.

So I'll just give a quick example of why Mevlana Rumi was drawn to his teacher, and the book goes into great detail about Rumi.But Rumi's important because the Ottoman Empire was built on his teachings.So for 700 years, you had an entire empire that was built on the teachings of love and dedication and compassion and coexistence that was came out

of . In his pocket was a piece of a blue diamond that had once belonged, so I was told, to European royalty,as well as to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.After entering Israel, the young man took a bus to Tel Aviv.

Mulla Sadra is an important later mystic philosopher who lives in the Safavid empire.Katib Celebi is an important Ottoman philosopher.Dara Shikoh is a really amazing guy.

Now my next example is from back in the 16th century.And who we have here is the Ottoman sultan in Constantinople, Sultan Murad III,and we have Queen Elizabeth I of England.

And so he engineered an attack like this, and then showed it to the media, and showed his own army coming in to save the inhabitants,It combines the worst of the Ottoman and the worst of the French.

And an empire that at its height seem to span the world simply rotted away.We look at the case of the Ottoman Empire, which every school kid is taught-- that was the sick man of Europe.Not really true. If you look at the origins of the Ottoman Empire, it was an administrative marble.

Then you have North Africa.And North Africa changes from where the Ottomans were and where they were not.So Morocco is where the Ottomans were not.

And North Africa changes from where the Ottomans were and where they were not.So Morocco is where the Ottomans were not.And Moroccan cuisine is quite distinct from Algerian or Tunisian.

And they started stuffing this laminated pastry with what we think is Bulgarian feta.And then the Bulgarians overthrew the Ottomans using Russian families to help arm them, which is why my last name is Solomonov, actually.Everyone thinks I'm Russian.

This Old Testament and Quranic punishment of adultery, there was only one incident.What that proves to us is that what the Ottoman and Muslim empires did not do is make what was Haram, what is religiouslyforbidden for religiously observant people.

And so he engineered an attack like this, and then showed it to the media, and showed his own army coming in to save the inhabitants,Damascus has the world's largest collection of old residential Ottoman architecture.

When you look at 1,300 years of Muslim history, I'll give an example from the Ottomans.For 700 years, the Ottomans were the superpower in the bulk of the Middle East.They knocked on the doors of Vienna twice.

But it wasn't an issue.In 1857, the Ottomans, 1857, early on the Ottomans decriminalized it.They made it an individual choice.

But of course, this has developed over 100 years.They didn't really like paying taxes to the Ottomans.And in fact, the Americans didn't like paying taxes to the Brits, because they weren't getting perceived value in return.

so that each chickpea maintains integrity and it's got a little bit of bite left to it.And so the food that they brought about wasn't Spanish and wasn't totally Ottoman, because the Ottomans had also conquered the Balkans for oil.

the Yirgacheffe. This is a really interesting experience. After the -- from Ethiopia, coffeemoved on to the Arabian peninsula, to the Ottoman Empire. I tried to go to the Ottoman Empire. Turns out it's too late. But Iwent pretty close. This is the old city in Jerusalem where you go there and you think you're in the Ottoman Empire. Actually, it's

And until very recently, most scholars have only been interested in the kind of line of Islamic philosophy that gets received in the Medieval West.especially with the Library of Alexandria and the Tunisian centers of influence when they were under the Ottoman occupation, basically?

We look at the case of the Ottoman Empire, which every school kid is taught-- that was the sick man of Europe.Not really true. If you look at the origins of the Ottoman Empire, it was an administrative marble.Much like the Praetorian guards of Rome, or the court units rounding the emperor in China, there were a group called janissaries

world long before the Arab Spring or his own death because he had nothing to offer. There's no al Qaeda hospital system or social welfare service or ideas about political economy.It's just a restoration of the caliphate, by which he means not the Ottoman Empire, but Taliban-style theocracies from Indonesia to Morocco. Most Muslims see what the Talibandid in Afghanistan. It's not a very attractive model for the future.

That's why they were called Khawarij.Now historically, whenever the Khawarij movement appeared, either the Ottomans or the Mughals normally eradicated them by force, because they were called treasonous.They sowed dissension. They killed other-- They were made to disappear.

Within months of his proposal in the Black Sea just off Sinope, the Russian Navy sank an ottoman fleet, and the Crimean war began.

But emerged out of the republic in a very strange way. In other words, not as a dynasty that created the state. So for example, if you think of the Ottoman Empire, many other empires,

He was a soldier and, with his brother, he went out to a battle somewhere else in the Mediterranean against the Ottoman Empire,

And then my grandmother, who was probably like-- I know this is super cliched-- but the reason I probably love food or love the heritage of the food that I cook,would make bourekas, which are this Balkan pastry that come all the way from medieval Spain through the Ottoman Empire to Israel.And I got to make thousands of them a day.

OK. So first, something about philosophy of the later Islamic world.Here's a map which shows the three-- actually, not all of, but most of the-- because the Ottoman Empire is cut off there--but the three later empires in the Islamic world.

So just to show a bit of the geography, Damascus, the capital, is right down here, very, very close to the Lebanese border.And that tells you, reminds you, that of course this whole area was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years.And this whole area was the province of Syria, which included Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Palestine.

any issue of any significance to Muslims anywhere. The floods in Pakistan of the summer of 2010, the list goes on and on. He never released a tape about the Arab Spring. He did makeone, which has been recovered, but this is the most significant event in the Middle East since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire since the end of World War I, and yet he had nothingto say about it. I think there's a reason for that. His people were not involved, his ideas were absent. I didn't see--. To me, it was very telling that in the thousands

moved on to the Arabian peninsula, to the Ottoman Empire. I tried to go to the Ottoman Empire. Turns out it's too late. But Iwent pretty close. This is the old city in Jerusalem where you go there and you think you're in the Ottoman Empire. Actually, it'skind of interesting. The story of how coffee came into the world is kind of vague. So the legend that everybody knows about is how the goat

was the part that was controlled by the Persian shahs, and the part that was controlled by the Ottomans.

You know, we talk about them often in the news, but very few people provide a definition.When you look at 1,300 years of Muslim history, I'll give an example from the Ottomans.For 700 years, the Ottomans were the superpower in the bulk of the Middle East.

And in fact, the Americans didn't like paying taxes to the Brits, because they weren't getting perceived value in return.But once you develop that norm, than it's going to be-- That's right, the Ottomans have been gone a long time-- almost as long as the Brits.We've gotten over it.

backgrounds would come together in one city in Medina through the great Muslim empires of Cordoba, and the Fatimids, and Bagdad through Akbar and the Ottomans, through what Rwandan