Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople. So the ...

The 17th-century paintings illustrating a hunting expedition by the nineteenth Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV are being exhibited in a museum in the Swedish capital. Twenty oil paintings on the hunting ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe By Andrew Wheatcroft Bodley Head £20, 384 pages ...

This superb narrative concerns the last large-scale Muslim assault on the West. It took place in 1683 when Mehmed IV led his fearsome troops from Istanbul in an assault on Vienna. Fuelled on an ...

The main intrigue is whether the correspondence in question was ever written. In the 1670s, the Ottoman Empire clashed with the Tsardom of Russia. Two hundred years later, renowned realist painter ...