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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
Provocative, appealing and controversial.......2006-08-02
Fomenko has succeeded to convincingly demonstrate the misconception about what "history" factually is... It is fiction and -like we can read and judge for ourselves- no science. It indeed is "make belief" only. I "discovered" Fomenko while studying the "old" history of Al Andaluz, Spain. Having found too many contradictions in available data, having seen too many forgeries as to pretend the importance of christianity for its decline, I ventured out to find Fomenko, who convinced me that we know little if anything for sure of the epoch before the XI-century. However, the integration of the Arabic-Islamic cultural history into the heavily distorted Western fails... There are some attempts to fit "the budding new religion" (Islam) into Fomenko's scheme, but they are too weak to be taken seriously and too often focussing on Turkey as the region where things started to influence the West, which is untrue at all.
Islam certainly was no "new religion" in the X-century. That the highly cultivated Al Andaluz ruler Mohammed-I could have been "mirrored" down in time into some myth about the "illiterate" founder of Islam itself is highly speculative. Nevertheless, Fomenko convinces me about the processes that were involved in forging a christian history. Intriguing and controversial as his books are, I recommend them as to rethink our current position in time and space and simply verify what was claimed. It is a "good" book, but not for bedtime reading... Mundus vult decipi, the world wants to be cheated. Fomenko's readers will understand why.
pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.......2006-02-16
Traces of white wine were found in Tutankhamen's tomb however there were no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd century AD, 1600 years after the young pharaoh died according to the traditional chronology. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925395.400
It can be interpreted as a contribution towards New Chronology theory that pharaohs lived in the 3rd century AD.
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The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism)
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This collection of essays represents a departure from the traditional perspective, recently questioned by many scholars, from which Ottoman history is usually written. Central to the establishment of Western domination over the ‘East’ is the writing of its history in terms of Western hegemony, above all in the case of the Ottoman Empire, which has been characterised as static, irrational and authoritarian in contrast with the dynamic, rational, democratic West. This book contrasts sharply with conventional studies of the Ottoman Empire, based on this European world-view, that focus on political military, and cultural institutions. Following a series of general theoretical discussions about Ottoman social structure, the contributors turn to case studies directed either to theoretical problems or to ‘facts’ which suggest new avenues of conceptualisation.
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State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire: Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia During the Sixteenth Century (The ... Heritage - Politics, Society and Economy)
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State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire studies the dynamics of Ottoman peasant economy in the sixteenth century. First, it shows that contrary to the conventional wisdom about the `stationariness'of the Asian agrarian economies, Ottoman peasant economy witnessed substantial growth in response to population increase, urban commercial expansion and to increased taxation demands. Second, the book argues that economic development did not take place independently of political structures, of the state. This meant that in the light of the fiscal and legitimation concerns of the Ottoman state and contrary to the assumptions of the models of economic development, changes in population and in commercial demand did not result in the disruption of the integrity of the small peasant holding as the primary unit of production. The book develops these arguments in the context of a detailed empirical study of the economic trends, of the state rules or institutions that embodied the relations of revenue extraction, and of exchange in Ottoman Anatolia.
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Struggle for Domination in the Middle East: The Ottoman-Mamluk War, 1485-91 (The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage : Politics, Society and Economy, Vo)
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This two-part volume offers a comprehensive account of the conflict between the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires. Part One explores Ottoman-Mamluk relations from their inception in the middle of the 14th century to the laying of the foundations of the conflict in the second half of the 15th century. Part Two offers a detailed description of the actual war of 1485-91, and analyzes it from various angles including military, economic, and diplomatic. Based largely on Ottoman, Mamluk and Italian primary sources--documentary and narrative--the volume helps to understand the second and final war between the Ottomans and Mamluks in 1516-17, which resulted in the downfall of the Mamluk Empire and the firm establishment of Ottoman power in the Middle East.
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A refreshing overview of Mamluk and Ottoman relations.......2005-12-04
Starting with the reign of Sultan Mehmed the conqueror (1451-81), the Ottomans (whose economic, military, and political power was on the rise) began to pursue a policy of imperialism. Combining this strategy with constant expansion through military conquests, the Ottomans sought to acquire more power and simultaneously, affect a favourable change in the distribution of that power in the region with the ultimate goal of establishing a worldwide empire. In contrast, the Mamluks (whose power was in constant decline) pursued a policy of status-quo-they sought to keep power and maintain the distribution of power that already existed. Moreover, unlike the Ottomans, the Mamluks' main instruments for preserving the status quo were alliances, as well as patron-client relationships with buffer principalities on the frontier. Eventually, there arose a conflict between the two powers, one in which the Ottomans always took the initiative and sought through offensive measures to increase their power at the expense of the Mamluks. Beginning in territorial competition, this conflict resulted in a direct opposition marked by two wars, the penultimate of which is the subject of Shai Har-El's impressive Struggle for domination in the Middle East.
In his preface, Har-El laments, "Mamluk history in general is still a barren field of research" and that, "historians working within the Oriental tradition have often avoided a conceptual inquiry into the history of relations between states, concentrating rather on the nation-state as the central focus of analysis" (xi). He attributes this to the "relative abundance of source material on states in comparison to the paucity of information on their foreign relations." Written under the auspices of Professor Halil Inalcik, Har-El's book thus not only fills a great void in modern scholarship on the history of southeastern Anatolia, but it also provides an excellent overview of diplomatic and military relations between the Mamluk and Ottoman states. The book is divided into two parts: the first half is devoted to Ottoman-Mamluk relations from their inception in the middle of the fourteenth century up to the outbreak of the first war, and the second half to the actual war itself.
In part one, Har-El goes into great depth to make the reader understand the roots and patterns of the conflict, especially by analyzing the underlying causes that exacerbated the hostility and culminated in the first war. The introduction begins with a description of the administrative and military organization of the Mamluk Anatolian frontier, followed by a presentation of the Ottoman-Mamluk confrontation over the frontier principalities of Karaman and Dulkadir, which triggered a series of events that lead to the first war. The second part comprehensively (and according to the author, accurately) reconstructs the various stages of the war and studies it from four different perspectives: the strategy and policy of the two powers, the military engagements, the impact of the war on the domestic life of the Mamluk state, and the related struggles in the diplomatic arena.
In the introduction, Har-El begins by discussing features of medieval diplomacy. Surprisingly, this deceptively basic discussion turns out to be quite important in understanding the Mamluk-Ottoman conflict. After the rise of Islam in the seventh century, Anatolia became a frontier for the Arab Islamic Empire, and later, of the `Abbasid caliphate. It was only in the eleventh century that the Turkish Seljuk sultans succeeded in breaching the barrier (after the battle of Manzikert in 1071) and pushed the barrier to western Anatolia. After the disintegration of the Seljuk Empire in the thirteenth century, a series of small principalities were established, the Ottoman principality being one of them. At that time, the Mamluk Empire, whose territory extended into southeastern Anatolia, was the most powerful state in the Muslim world. However, over the span of the next century, the Ottoman dynasty established itself as a rival empire comprising a vast territory in the Balkans and the whole of Anatolia up to the Taurus Mountains and the Euphrates River-for the first time, its Eastern boundary was in direct contact with the Mamluk Empire.
To offer a better analytic framework, Har-El has developed an ingenious method of considering each frontier zone as "subordinate systems," wherein a pattern of intern-state politics in a given region is subordinated to the bi-bloc international system. He identifies the Anatolian system as unstable, one in which the relations between its members were marked by aggressiveness in the purposes and means of conflict, and by constant territorial changes. To this end, Har-El identifies five devices employed by the Ottomans and the Mamluks to maintain or disturb the balance of power between them: "divide and rule, spheres of influence, intervention, alliances, and buffer zones." In particular, the establishment of a buffer zone between the two empires was a prerequisite for stability in the Anatolian system. However, the gradual reduction in the number of lesser powers, and the eventual disappearance of the buffer zone removed the essential conditions for stability and made the system more penetrable, consequently bringing the two powers into conflict.
Also in the introduction, Har-El delves into the principles of Intra-Muslim Conflict Relations, with an excellent explanation on the development of how the shari'a came to allow for jihad in intra-Muslim (or as he prefers to call it, "internal") wars. The basics of patron-client relationships as a method of statecraft are covered, and the sources for the first war are not only richly documented, but also discussed at great length despite their not being critically discussed (it is also not clear why Har-El chose to discuss his material so late in the introduction). The majority of his sources are narrative literature, particularly chronicles, though he concedes that a "major problem encountered in using this material is the traditional copying of one chronicler from his predecessor's works, which necessitates much comparison and collation" (18). In addition, Har-El has also made much use of various historical handbooks, including biographical dictionaries and bureaucratic literature, as well as travel accounts.
Keeping in line with his theoretical framework as mentioned above, Har-El focuses extensively on the buffer principalities of Dulkadir and Ramadan. This includes a detailed history of the principalities, their military organization, a discussion of their districts, and defensive perimeters. Furthermore, rather than simply attributing the decline of the Mamluks with the Timurid invasions at the turn of the fifteenth century, Har-El explains how demographic, economic, political, and military causes combined not only to weaken the regime, but also to seriously undermine its defensive systems. For example, because of the decline of their power, the Mamluks left their long coasts defenceless and open to attack by the growing Ottoman navy. In fact, except for a few isolated instances, there is no mention in the chronicles of a Mamluk fleet.
With the disappearance of all major fortresses on the Syria-Palestinian coast, the vulnerability of the Mamluk Empire to naval attacks became even greater. In fact, in part two when Har-El discusses the war, it is surprising to read how the Mamluks prevailed despite their odds and weaknesses. Thus concludes part one, with a survey of the five years preceding the outbreak of war, during which strained relations over the frontier region were exacerbated by the support given by the Mamluk sultan to Jem, the brother and rival of the Ottoman sultan, Bayezid. While the first part of the book was heavily based on Mamluk sources, the second part of the book balances this bias by presenting a detailed account of the war based largely on Ottoman sources. Furthermore, not only does it cover the military history of the campaigns, but also the repercussions of the Ottoman-Mamluk rivalry on European diplomacy.
Har-El describes the 1488 battle between the Mamluk and Ottoman armies in detail and supplements it with well-illustrated maps, as well as figures and tables explaining the artillery, formations, composition, and other aspects of both the armies (and navies). As a result, it is unsatisfactory to read him describe the war in the concluding chapter as "a series of campaigns in which the Ottomans repeatedly occupied Cilicia and lost it to the Mamluks, who won the military encounters but were unable to follow up their victories because of internal and financial problems" (192)-this attempt to simplify what so far had been presented as an extremely complex situation throughout the book comes off as unwelcome and unappreciated.
The book is shoddily edited-there are glaring spelling errors (khilafa is spelled "hilafa" [9]), grammatical errors, and awkwardly constructed sentences. In addition, there are other technical mistakes: two minor examples include the author making gaza the fifth pillar of Islam (65) when he clearly meant sixth, (casting doubt on his knowledge on Islam is unreasonable) and biographical dictionaries (23) are transformed into bibliographical dictionaries. Furthermore, while there are numerous other illustrations besides maps in the book, these seem to have been added without any purpose, almost as an afterthought to fill space. For example, there are illustrations from the nineteenth century depicting Mamluk life ("A Mamluk in Full Armour" [170]), yet we cannot be sure of their accuracy because of the apparent anachronism. However, one cannot let these errors detract us from the quality of the rest of the work, because ultimately, building upon a wealth of contemporary and secondary sources, Har-El has produced a magnificent work of military history that is clearly and methodically presented.
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Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain (1877-1924) (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage - Politics, Society and Economy , No 12)
Azmi Ozcan
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This important study examines the Indo-Muslim attitude towards the Ottomans from the start of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877 until the end of the Caliphate in 1924. The period treated coincides with what is commonly described as the Pan-Islamic Movement; the British reaction to the Pan-Islamic developments is also discussed extensively. No comprehensive study to date has dealt with the nature of the relations between the Ottomans and other Muslims, and therefore this work provides new historical, religious and political perspectives on the modern history of Indian Muslims. In addition to Indian, Pakistani, Ottoman and British archival material, publications such as diaries, memoirs, newspapers and books have been incorporated, including writings in Urdu which are generally inaccessible to most historians studying late nineteenth-century Ottoman history.
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Pan-Islamism.......2001-08-06
The Indian romance with the Ottoman Empire has been known from British and Indian sources, but Özcan fleshes out the story - and a fascinating one it is - with information from the Turkish archives. First, he shows that the Indian connection did not begin, as is usually thought, in the 1870s, but goes back to the 1530s, when the Ottomans sent a fleet of two thousand men to Diu and Indian Muslims expressed a desire for Ottoman suzerainty. By the 1550s, a cultural nexus had also grown up, so that a renowned Turkish architect was building in Agra and Delhi. It then continued; inn 1777, for example, the sultan of Malabar sought financial help from Istanbul.
Second, Özcan shows how the Ottoman Empire filled this same role for a variety of other Muslim countries-such as the khanates of Central Asia and distant Atjeh (in today's Indonesia). Interestingly, these states not only asked for Ottoman help (which they sometimes got-twenty battleships to Atjeh to fight the Portuguese in 1556) but also offered their own services (the khan of Bukhara offered all help in 1719 against Russia).
With the collapse of Muslim power in India in 1857, a longing developed there for the symbols of Turkish sovereignty, which the British agilely exploited their own purposes (for example, prevailing on the Ottoman sultan to encourage Indians to accept British rule). Sultan Abdülhamit II (r. 1876-1908) put great stress on his pan-Islamic role, going so far as to assert that "one word" from him "would be enough for starting a jehad against ... the Christians." Of course, when war came in 1914, that "one word" proved not to be enough, and although the Indian Muslims remained attached to their Turkish coreligionists, they did not revolt against British rule. Contrarily, the Indians could do nothing to stop Kemal Atatürk from abolishing the caliphate in 1924, an act that effectively cut the links between Turkey's and India's Muslims.
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Its a great contribution and an indispensable source........1999-06-22
...There are a few works on the relations between the Ottomans and the Indian muslims. The existing ones however, mainly based on the English sources. The fact that the Ottoman archival material used for the first time in a study dealing also with the modern history of the Indian muslims vis a vi the British and the Ottomans, makes this study indispensable for those who are interested in the history of respective lands. Therefore Dr. Ozcan's work is a great contribution and deserves every credit....
Prof. Dr. Nejat Göyünç The Journal of the Ottoman Studies, XVIII, 1988, pp 285-288. (Book Reviews)
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