Year 5 of the JBJ Academy Islamic History track. One unit: Istanbul and the Long Ottoman Centuries (1300–1924) — eighteen lessons, one every two weeks over a 36-week year.
From the rise of the Ottomans and the conquest of Constantinople, through Suleiman, the Safavids and the Mughals, the reform movement of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the long nineteenth century and the Tanzimat, to Sykes–Picot and the abolition of the caliphate in 1924.
Note on credit: Grade 11 is credit-bearing, and this course is tagged History & Social Science rather than Elective. Colonialism and the modern era moved to Islamic History: Grade 12, which now closes the track.
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Istanbul and the Long Ottoman Centuries (1300–1924)
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
1453 — The Conquest of Constantinople
Mehmed II and the Remaking of a Capital
Suleiman — Law, Conquest and the Height of Power
How the Ottoman State Worked — Millet, Devshirme, Ulama
Sinan and Ottoman Architecture
The Safavids and the Ottoman–Safavid Wars
The Mughals — Babur to Akbar
Aurangzeb and the Fatawa Alamgiri
Why the Gunpowder Empires Stalled
The Reform Movement of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the First Saudi State
Ottoman Decline — The Long Nineteenth Century
The Tanzimat — Reform, Debt and European Pressure
The Scramble for Muslim Lands — Egypt, Algeria, India
World War I and the Arab Revolt
Sykes–Picot and the Carving of the Middle East
The Fall of the Ottoman Caliphate & Its Aftermath
1924 — What the Abolition of the Caliphate Meant
