the ottoman empire

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ottoman empire

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The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman. After 13…

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jarisarries

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empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia (Asia Minor) that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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sultan

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end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor

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sultanate

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The first period of Ottoman history was characterized by almost continuous territorial expansion, during which Ottoman dominion spread out from a small northwestern Anatolian principality to cover most of southeastern Europe and Anatolia.

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harem

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Harem refers to the sphere of women in what is usually a polygynous household and their enclosed quarters which are forbidden to men. The term originated in the Near East. Harems are composed of wives and concubines. The South Asian equivalent, f

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aurangzed

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Harem, also known as zenana in South Asia, properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations. Similar institutions have been common

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shah

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usually secluded house or part of a house allotted to women in a Muslim household

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kingdom

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running out in 2016 to help Wikipedia. When I made Wikipedia a non-profit, people warned me I’d regret it. Over a decade later, it’s the only top ten site run by a non-profit and a community of volunteers.

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the the leme

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inaccessible to adult males except for close relations.[3][4][5] Similar institutions have been common in other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, especially among royal and upper-class families,[4] and the term is sometimes used in non-Islamic contexts.[6] The structure of the harem and the extent of monogamy or polygamy has v

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timur the cono

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private space has been traditionally understood as serving the purposes of maintaining the modesty, privilege, and protection of women

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emperor akbar

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private space has been traditionally understood as serving the purposes of maintaining the modesty, privilege, and protection of women

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nur jahan

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royal harems of the past — their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic workers,

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delhi

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Although the institution has experienced a decline in the modern era, the spatial seclusion of female family members from male visitors to the house is still practiced in many parts of the Muslim world.[3] In the We

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sufism

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Tasawwuf, according to its adherents, is the inner mystical dimension of Islam. Practitioners of Sufism (Tasawwuf), referred to as Sufis, often belong to different ṭuruq or “orders”—congregations formed around a grand master referred to as a Mawla who maintains a direct chain of teachers back to the Prophet Muhammad.

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sikishm

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belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through

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tai mahal

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and of God and to facilitate the experience of the presence of divine love and wisdom in the world.

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safavid

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dress in wool”) in Arabic, but it has been called Sufism in Western languages since the early 19th century. An abstract word, Sufism derives from the Arabic term for a mystic, ṣūfī, which is in turn derived f

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ismail abbas

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reference to the woollen garment of early Islamic ascetics. The Sufis are also generally known as “the poor,” fuqarāʾ, plural of the Arabic faqīr, in Persian darvīsh, whence the English words fakir and dervish.

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sufis

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Though the roots of Islamic mysticism formerly were supposed to have stemmed from various non-Islamic sources in ancient Europe and even India, it now seems estab

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suleyman

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that developed as a counterweight to the increasing worldiness of the expanding Muslim community; only later were foreign elements that were compatible with my

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esmail

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The Rajput population and the former Rajput states are found spread across In

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safidon

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Rajputs regard themselves as descendants or members of the Kshatriya (warrior ruling) class, but they actually vary greatly in status, from princely lineages, such as the Guhilot and Kachwaha, to simple cultivators. Most authorities agree tha

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kizilbash

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well as patrician lines of indigenous tribal peoples were probably absorbed in that way. There are numbers of Muslim Rajputs in northwestern India and eastern Pakistan, and Rajputs generally have ado

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rajputs

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hypergamous marriages (i.e., a bride marrying into a social group higher than her own).

The Rajputs’ origins seem to date from a great breakup of Indian society in the northern

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sikh faith

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cultivating) order to form the basis of tribal castes, such as the Jats, the Gujars, and the Ahirs. Some of the invaders’ priests became Brahmans (the highest-ranking caste). Some indigenous tribes and clans also attained Rajput status, s