Bernard Lewis. Race and Slavery in the Middle East Oxford Univ Press 1994. Chpt. 1 Slavery In 1842 the British Consul General in Morocco, as part of his government's worldwide endeavor to bring about the abolition of slavery or at least the curtailment of the slave trade, made representations to the sultan of that country asking him what measures, if any, he had taken to accomplish this ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Young Turks: Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908 1. The basis for the Constitution will be respect for the predominance of the national will. One of the consequences of this principle will be to require without delay the responsibility of the minister before the Chamber, and, consequently, to consider the minister as having ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Sir William Eton: A Survey of the Turkish Empire, 1799 It is undeniable that the power of the Turks was once formidable to their neighbors not by their numbers only, but by their military and civil institutions, far surpassing those of their opponents. And they all trembled at the name of the Turks, who with a confidence procured by ...

The Ottoman Period (1517-1917 CE) When the Ottoman Turks defected the Mameluke forces in 1517, Palestine came under the rule of a new empire that was to dominate the entire Near East for the next 400 years. At the outset, particularly during the reign of Sultan Suleiman, known in Arabic as the Law maker, but better known as Suleiman the Magnificent, Jerusalem flourished. Walls and gates, which ...

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