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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz

Mostafa Minawi (Author)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ซ Central African Republic

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช Niger

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ Chad

Edition published in 2016 in English language

The Ottoman Scramble for Africaย is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin to the Hijaz, and then back to Istanbul. It turns the spotlight on the Ottoman Empire's expansionist strategies in Africa and its increasingly vulnerable African and Arabian frontiers.

Drawing on previously untapped Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa Minawi examines how the Ottoman participation in the Conference of Berlin and involvement in an aggressive competition...

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