Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History by Alan Mikhail

Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

Alan Mikhail

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

history challenging informative slow-paced
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Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of t...

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