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Were the Early Ottomans Driven by Holy War or Pragmatic Coalition? - Beyond the Ghazi Thesis: Building the Ottoman Coalition | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the late thirteenth century, the Byzantine Empire was reeling from the Fourth Crusade, and the Seljuk Sultanate in Anatolia was fragmenting under Mongol pressure. Into this porous, contested landscape in northwest Anatolia stepped a minor Turkish lord named Osman. He commanded no great army and claimed no divine mandate that his contemporaries recognized. Yet the household he built on the Bithynian frontier would outlast every rival principality and become the foundation of a…
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