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10 Ottoman Myths Debunked with Dr Yakoob Ahmed

The Thinking Muslim

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The Antagonism Between Islam and Christianity

The Ottoman Empire for most of its time was a Muslim entity where predominantly people were non-Muslims. So one Christian area would have been far more barbaric to another group of Christians and the Balkans than the Ottomans would have. They said, we can't replicate the strategies that the Mongols had to use or these guys were using. We'll use a different type of conscription. That was the strategy that they probably chose to use at the time.

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