This is a paperbound reprint of a 1994 book. Goodwin (d.2005) was the author of several scholarly works on Ottoman culture. Here he explores the rise and fall of an elite military corps that inspire
A reprint from 1997, this volume enumerates the role of women in Ottoman high society and politics. The focus is the period of the sultanate up to 1924, when Ataturk founded the Republic. Syrian and E
In this major contribution to an understanding of the development of Ottoman architecture, Godfrey Goodwin focuses on the work of one of the greatest sixteenth-century architects, Sinan Abdulmennan, s
When it was first published, Godfrey Goodwin''s study immediately established itself as a definitive work on the subject. It remains the only comprehensive survey in English and virtually the only acc
