Throughout Islamic history,
empires rose and fell for 1400 years. The Umayyads, Abbasids, Mamluks, Mughals,
and Ottomans are just some of the major dynasties of Islam that rose to
prominence, achieved a golden age, and eventually fell and were
only remembered in the history books. Ibn Khaldun, in his brilliant
book on historiography, The Muqaddimah,
states that “dynasties have a natural life span like individuals” and that “it
[a dynasty] grows up and passes into an age of stagnation and then into
retrogression.” The insightful words of Ibn Khaldun in 1337 hold true for the history
of the last great Muslim empire – the Ottoman Empire. Read more>>>
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