The Sultan of Constantinople and the Caliph of Baghdad: Military Composition and Centralized Power in the Muslim World, 749–1800

Authors

Peter del Rosso, University of Waterloo

Abstract

This paper strives to examine the beginnings of first the Abbasid armed forces beginning with the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in 749 AD, in order to understand the main recruitment patterns, regions, ethnicities, and incentives for recruitment; a study of the initial Ottoman military will be conducted in order to showcase the differences between the two, as well as to suggest why the Ottomans enjoyed a supremacy which the Abbasids never held for an extended amount of time.

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16

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Recommended Citation

del Rosso, Peter (2021) "The Sultan of Constantinople and the Caliph of Baghdad: Military Composition and Centralized Power in the Muslim World, 749–1800," Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.20429/aujh.2021.110101
Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/aujh/vol11/iss1/1