Decline of the Muslim Empires: Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal

Since the beginning, all empires have faced change in many ways, declining and rising in status. Many empires have collapsed, only to start again under a different name. Like all empires, the three Muslim Empires, the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals have faced this inevitable state. Although each individual empire is different, they each have similarities in their reasons for decline. Whether it is social, religious, economic, or political reasons, the empires, like many others, have fallen.

The Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman had started in the northwestern corner of the Anatolian Peninsula. The empire expanded rapidly, only to weaken again. The first visible decline was the loss of territory at the Battle of Carlowitz in 1699. Many of their reasons of success have deteriorated over the years and actually caused the decline as well. The Ottoman’s military was very strong, especially the members of the Janissaries corps. Boys were recruited from the local Christian population to serve as guards but only the best ones became Janissaries. “Janissaries were usually sent to work for two or three years without pay as agricultural laborers f

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Battle Carlowitz, India Company, Alarmed Ottomans, Nur Jahan’s, Akbar Mughal, Shah Abbas’s, Jahan Jahan, Safavids Mughals, Safavid Mughal, Anatolian Peninsula, religious tolerance, muslim empires, ottoman empire, reasons decline, shah abbas’s, decline empire, trade manufacturing, succeeded throne,