1. Connections: A World History
Second Edition
Chapter 17
Culture and Conflict in
the Great Islamic
Empires, 1071–1707
Connections: A World History, Second Edition
Edward H. Judge • John W. Langdon

2. Ottoman Compass Points

3. Mughal India/Safavid Persia/The Ottoman Empire

4. Culture and Conflict in the Great
Islamic Empires, 1071–1707
A. The Conquests of Timur Lenk
B. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire
C. Safavid Persia: A Shi’ite State
D. The Mughal Empire: A Muslim Minority Rules Ind

5. The Conquests of Timur Lenk

6. The Conquests of Timur Lenk
A. Early Life
B. Timur’s Strengths and Good Fortune
1. Advantages
2. Conquests

7. FOUNDATION MAP 17.1 The Empire of Timur Lenk,
ca. 1405

8. The Conquests of Timur Lenk
C. Attack on the Ottomans
D. Timur as Warrior and Administrator

9. The interior of the chapel at the tomb of Timur
Lenk in Samarkand, in present-day Uzbekistan.

10. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman
Empire

11. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman
Empire
A. Nomads and Islam
B. Ottomans and Byzantines
C. Mehmed the Conqueror

12. Mehmed II.

13. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman
Empire
D. The Ottoman State and Society
1. The Ottoman government’s unique
synthesis
2. Ottoman society

14. Ottoman law book.

15. MAP 17.2 The Ottoman Empire in 1566

16. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman
Empire
E. Suleiman the Magnificent
1. The Ottoman Empire as a force in world
affairs
2. Suleiman the lawgiver

17. Suleiman.

18. The Cosmopolitan Ottoman
Empire
F. A Faltering Empire

19. Safavid Persia: A Shi’ite State

20. Safavid Persia: A Shi’ite State
A. Shi’ite Islam as a Unifying Force
1. The Safavid movement
2. Persia and its neighbors

21. MAP 17.3 The Safavid Empire in Persia, 1600

22. A Safavid battle tunic.

23. The Shah Mosque in Isfahan.

24. Safavid Persia: A Shi’ite State
B. Regional and Islamic Influence on
Family and Gender Roles

25. Persian women.

26. The Mughal Empire: A Muslim
Minority Rules India

27. The Mughal Empire: A Muslim
Minority Rules India
A. The Delhi Sultanate in India
1. Temporary unity

28. MAP 17.4 The Delhi Sultanate in India, 1236

29. The Golden Temple.

30. The Mughal Empire: A Muslim
Minority Rules India
B. Babur: Founding the Mughal Empire
1. Babur
B. Akbar’s Reign of Cultural
Accommodation
1. Tolerance
2. Government
3. Persian influence

31. MAP 17.5 The Mughal Empire in India, 1690

32. The Mughal Empire: A Muslim
Minority Rules India
D. The Great Mughals
1. Nur Jahan and Shah Jahan: lighting the
world
2. Aurangzeb’s reign: rebellion and disunity

33. The Taj Mahal.

34. Key Dates and Developments