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Text in Arabic. This book is one of the most important Orientalist
works that explores Ottoman history written by the English
historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy in the middle of the 19th
century. The book is divided into twenty-five chapters, most of
which follow the chronological order of events, except for some
chapters which shed light on certain details concerning the
administrative or military systems of the state and its
development. Sir Edward Creasy relied mainly on Joseph von
Hammer-Purgstall, or, in other words, he followed his path in the
writing of Ottoman history until 1774, but on the other hand, as he
himself noted, his book is not a shortcut to von Hammers work. At
the time, von Hammers work was not translated into English but
relied on many contemporary European sources of events, memoirs and
reports of leaders, diplomats and travelers who were sometimes
subject to bias. Additionally, von Hammer included partial studies
that dealt with political, economic and social dimensions and
analyses, comparisons and causalities of events. Sir Edward Creasy
provides an English perspective on the circumstances and the events
during the period after 1774 and until the period after the Crimean
War (1853-1856), where this book ends, which is undoubtedly one of
the most important times in contemporary history.
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