The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ottoman_Empire/ #History #Crusades #IslamicCaliphates #MehmedII

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ottoman_Empire/ #History #Crusades #IslamicCaliphates #MehmedII

Saladin (c. 1137 – 1193 CE), the Muslim ruler who crushed the mighty Crusader army at the Horns of Hattin (1187 CE) and re-took Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader control, was born in a world where the disunity of the Muslims had allowed foreign invaders to take over their territory. The Islamic front was divided between the Sunni Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad and the Shia Fatimid caliphate of...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1384/saladin--the-unification-of-the-muslim-front-1169/ #BattleofHattin #CrusaderStates #IslamicCaliphates