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Allies with the Infidel - The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
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Allies with the Infidel - The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
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In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to
bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the
command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from
Francois I of France for assistance from Sultan Suleyman the
Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military alliance
between mutual 'infidels', the Christian French King and the Muslim
Sultan, aroused intense condemnation on religious grounds from the
Habsburgs and their supporters as an aberration from accepted
diplomacy. Memories of the Crusades were, after all, still very
much alive in Europe and an alliance with 'the Turk' seemed
unthinkable to many. "Allies with the Infidel" places the events of
1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in
the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. Relying
on contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the
realpolitik of diplomacy with 'infidels' in the early modern era.
The result is essential reading for students and scholars of
European history, Ottoman Studies, and of relations between the
Christian and Islamic worlds.
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