{"id":1538,"date":"2006-04-11T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2006-04-11T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:40:33","slug":"what-the-sultan-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/what-the-sultan-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Sultan Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110008215\">Wall Street Opinion Journal<\/a> Matthew Kaminski April 11, 2006<\/p>\n<p><em>Practicing a tolerant strain of Islam, the Ottomans clashed with fundamentalists.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The Ottoman Empire passed into history in 1922, a mere lifetime ago. Yet in a certain way it feels as distant as ancient Athens or Rome, known to us mostly through architectural relics, a few striking events and a mythical aura. Kemal Atat\u00fcrk&#8217;s secular Turkish republic, the empire&#8217;s successor state, consciously rejected much of the Ottoman heritage and most of its traditions, while the empire&#8217;s colonial outposts have reverted to the imperatives of their local identities.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yet the religious aspect of the 9\/11 attacks has made the Ottomans, who led the Muslim world for half a millennium, topical again. The sultans are famous for sacking Constantinople in the 15th century and besieging Vienna in the 16th. Both events became symbols of Muslim aggression against Christendom. And the &#8220;barbarian Turk&#8221; is still a villain in the folklore of the empire&#8217;s northern reaches. Yet such caricature fails to do justice to the remarkable Ottomans, whose story is a corrective to the perceived wisdom that Islam is inherently unable to reconcile itself with the West.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110008215\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Opinion Journal Matthew Kaminski April 11, 2006 Practicing a tolerant strain of Islam, the Ottomans clashed with fundamentalists. The Ottoman Empire passed into history in 1922, a mere lifetime ago. Yet in a certain way it feels as distant as ancient Athens or Rome, known to us mostly through architectural relics, a few &#8230; <a title=\"What the Sultan Saw\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/what-the-sultan-saw\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What the Sultan Saw\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}