Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450 - 1750 by Noel Malcolm

Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450 - 1750

Noel Malcolm

512 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by...

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