Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire.

The Journal of the American Oriental SocietyVol. 126 Nbr. 3, July 2006

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Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire.

Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. By GABOR AGOSTAN. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xvii, 277. $77.

Battles and wars are an inseparable feature of almost every period of Ottoman history, across the geographic span of the empire. Scholars and students alike understandably lose track of the details concerning specific engagements, chronology, and outcomes, once they step away...

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