The Ottoman Age of Exploration

The story of the Ottoman Empire's struggle with the Portuguese for control of the sixteenth-century Indian Ocean.

McKnight Land Grant Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Introduction: An Empire of the Mind
Chapter One: Selim the Navigator (1512-1520)
Chapter Two: Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance (1520-1536)
Chapter Three: Hadim Suleiman Pasha's World War (1536-1544)
Chapter Four: Rustem Pasha vs. the Indian Ocean Faction (1544-1561)
Chapter Five: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the Apogee of Ottoman Power in the Indian Ocean (1561-1579)
Chapter Six: A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Mir Ali Beg's Expeditions to the Swahili Coast (1579-1589)
Chapter Seven: The Death of Politics
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