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All Episodes of The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors

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All Episodes of The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors

It was the world's last Islamic empire - a super-power of a million square miles. From its capital in Istanbul it matched the glories of...
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Season 1

  • Roots of the Ottomans
    6.9/1029 votes

    Roots of the Ottomans

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2013

    Rageh Omaar attempts to establish how two parallel narratives have emerged from history, one that is commonly seized on to portray the Ottomans as religious zealots or bent on holy war, another that reveals an empire more ready than others to tolerate differences and driven by much more secular motives.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Suleiman the Magnificent and Abdul Hamid II
    7.1/1024 votes

    Suleiman the Magnificent and Abdul Hamid II

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2013

    Rageh finds out more about the massive contrasts in the times of two very different Ottoman sultans. They are Suleiman the Magnificent in the Golden Age of the 16th century and the troubled reign of Abdul Hamid II during the 19th century'.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mustafa Kemal-Ataturk
    6.5/1022 votes

    Mustafa Kemal-Ataturk

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2013

    Rageh finds out how this great empire was finally destroyed, and its achievements were mainly lost in the trauma of its final years.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown