Does The Blue Mosque Explain Ottoman Decline?

What is the best Ottoman monument?

Ahmed & Kosem love is timeless ❤

Ottoman civilization is built on the bones of the Roman Empire and declined as soon as they could not conquer and pillage the wealth of others.

the role of the chain on the mosque door🥺😭

Excellent work

He who built Haghia Sofia will reclaim it one day

So the Ottomans fought the greatest forces of Europe and Persia simultaneously and that's not a victory??

Bruh. I always thought blue mosque and Hagia Sophia were same building 💀

Can you do a video on the last name Khan as found in the subcontinent

Muhteşem bir eser

Fun fact 🇦🇱❤🇹🇷 Sedefkar Mehmed Agha who was the architect of the Blue Mosque was an Albanian. Search up, Devshirme Sedefkar Mehmed Agha Albanian, and it will say

"Mehmed Agha was born around 1540. According to the biographer Cafer Efendi, he was believed to have been originally from the city of Elbasan in what is now Albania. He brought to Istanbul in 1563 as a "Devshirme" to join the janissary corps or palace schools."

Thanks Sultan Ahmet may Allah Azza Wa Jalla be pleased with you.

The day that the Ottoman incorperated the Arab world that was the day its down fall started.

Anyway, I live in Istanbul and the mosque is a good scenery from my window. Thanks Sultan Ahmed, for being weak

Open sesame

I went to the Blue Mosque in 2013. It looks even more impressive when you see it in person, both on the outside and the inside.

The ottoman peak was during Ahmad's grandson

He wanted to be like Suleman the magnificent

No, it's not. Ahmet I wasn't a softy in first place. No military uprising happened during his reign, he punished corrupted officers without mercy. He killed his grand vizier with his own hand and executed his son in law because of treachery. He just spared his mentaly ill brother. There was big problems before his reign and he actually tried to solve problems effecting Empire. Decline started in his grandfather Murad III's reign. Firstly, civil wars ended after the last civil war between Suleiman's sons. After Suleiman's defeat son Bayezid took refuge in Safavids, only eldest son started to send sanjac. Suleiman's son Selim II had a short reign, his son Murad III came to capital after his father died. His brothers were captives in the palace, they were no rival, he simply executed them. There is no importance or anything like that it simply turned eldest son takes throne because he born first. For Murad III, his reign was actually his mother's reign. Grand Vizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha was highly respected officer during the Selim II's reign but Murad III didn't give same respect to Mehmed Pasha. Mehmed Pasha's corrupted court rivals got more influence thanks to Murad III's mother. Bribery and corruption started to effect empire, Mehmed Pasha was the one fighting against them but he assasinated. After that, corruption surrounded every corner of the empire. Unfair treatment of common people, useless campaings against Safavids, pro-britain and pro-venetian politics, collapse of Timar system and growing palace spendings impacted empire too much. Economy got so bad there was serious military uprisings. Murad III era was really start of the troubles, his son Mehmed III reign that growing problems showed its effect.

I can't wait for that video!
I love the blue color in islamic art. It makes me feel at home when I am abroad. (Maybe because there is a tradicion of using that same blue in Christian tile artworks in my country...)

Really enjoyed this video. I have been to the Blue Mosque and was both humbled and amazed...an architectural masterpiece indeed. Looking forward to our chat!

video on reasons for ottoman decline please. Also corruption of jannisaries

Thank you I appreciate you and your videos Hikma History!

Great video as always sir. I am also from Pakistan wish i could meet and talk with more people like you. It's always a pleasure.

It is very ostentatious I remember praying there and thinking this mosque is huge

Wow a very interesting and informative video!

I had no idea about the background of the building of the Blue Mosque! Thanks for an informative video!

👍 good video