Origins of Ottoman Empire

In The Origins of the Ottoman Empire, K pr l criticized as unscientific the prevailing Western explanations of the origins of the Ottoman Empire. Leiser's translation from the Turkish reveals K pr l 's modern historiographic method, and his unique contribution in describing the nature of the relevant Muslim sources. Using these and other references, K pr l gave the first broad comprehensive account--political, religious, social, and economic--of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlined the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.