The Byzantines

[muqawwee123]

Re: The Byzantines

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

There’s a book by a Turkish author on the Ottoman Empire that I found to be exccelent: The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik.

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Coming back to the Byzantine hostility issue, the root of their hostility cam from the fact that the Arab tribes who lived in Northern Arabia historically recognized the Byzantine Emperor as their sovereign, even though there was no formal Byzantine administration there, and even though they were not necessarily always Christian Arabs. As the tribesmen began converting to Islam and renouncing the Emperor’s authority, Byzantium believed that there was a new nation forming that was trying to break off part of the Empire. They correctly identified that religion was the key element to this new nation and began persecuting and killing converts as a means of preserving their territory… and giving justification for the jihads against that that followed.

Is this the book you are talking about:

An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, vol. 1, 1300-1600 | Halil Inalcik with Donald Quataert | digital library BookOS