The Ottoman star was very much in the ascendant by the time Selim I reached the throne. (“Ottoman” is a corruption of “Osmanli,” the name of the Turkish dynasty founded by the sultan Osman I at the end of the thirteenth century.) Constantinople had fallen to the Ottomans in 1453, and they had overrun what […]
In the name of Merciful and Almighty God. I invite all my Moslem brothers throughout the whole world to join in the Holy War for God, for the defense of Islam and her lands against her enemy. O Faithful, obey and respond to my call. O Moslems! Proud Iraq has placed herself in the vanguard […]
The Independent Sanjak of Jerusalem, Sanjak of Balqa (Nablus), Sanjak of Acre, Vilayet of Syria Source: Great Britain and Palestine 1915-1939. (p. 143)
FO 371/1794 – No. 218 (16925) Pera, March 17, 1913 Sir, After the coup d’etat of January 23, last by which the Committee of Union and Progress (e.g. CUP) seized power, the Zionists again became active here and the grand rabbi of Turkey addressed to the minister of justice two notes demanding the abolition of […]
The Pasha of Damascus visits Jerusalem and expels all the Jews living near the Western Wall. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
The pasha of Jerusalem, Yusuf, oppressed the Jews (and arrest) rabbis for ransoms. Rabbi Meyuchas succeeds in raising the ransom from Jews in Turkey. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.
The Muslim kadi of Jerusalem decrees that Jews must wear a tall turban, and forbids, them from crossing in front of an Arab from his right side. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
A famous rabbi of Poland, Rabbi Yeshayau Halevi Horovits, moves to Jerusalem and is welcomed by the Jews with great celebration. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
1588 Rabbi Besalel Ashkenazi moves to Jerusalem from Egypt Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
The confiscation of the Jewish synagogue was very violent and many Jews fled the city, Abu Sipin orders the confiscation of all synagogues in Jerusalem, just like he did in the 1570s in the grave of Samuel. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html