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Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world's population

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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire angels Muslims and Christians together makeThe Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I. In this magisterial work the first definitive account written for the general reader renowned scholar and journalist Caroline Finkel lucidly recounts the epic story of