On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as “the Conqueror,” launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered. As the Sultan’s Imam intoned the Muslim creed within the walls of Hagia Sophia, the Greek cathedral become a Turkish mosque, and the curtain went up on a new era. In this, the ninth volume of The Centers of Civilization Series, Bernard Lewis describes the city and its civilization in the great age of the Ottoman Sultanate, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Under the Ottomans, the city once again became the center of a vest empire and of a flourishing civilization. The conquerors did not destroy the captured Christian city, but took care to preserve and embellish; they added four Muslim minarets to Hagia Sophia, built many fine mosques and palaces of their own, and transformed the shrunken remnant of the Byzantine city into a new and splendid imperial capital. The great new Muslim city of Istanbul which they created became a center of cultural as well we political life. It was the gateway between East and West, the place where Asia and Europe clashed and blended. It was the seat of the Sultans and the Grand Viziers, of the government of the Ottoman Empire. No less interesting than the concepts of government and the Muslim religion practiced by the Ottoman Turks were the imperial place and household and the people of the city. Mr. Lewis relies upon the first-hand accounts of Turkish historians and poets and European travelers, thus enabling the reader to see the city, its people, and their life through the eyes of contemporary participants and observers.

1453年5月29日星期二，被历史称为 "征服者 "的年轻苏丹迈赫迈德对君士坦丁堡的城墙发起了最后的攻击，并将这个帝国的首都添加到他的父辈们所征服的帝国中，作为复制石。当苏丹的伊玛目在圣索菲亚大教堂的墙内颂扬穆斯林的信条时，希腊大教堂变成了土耳其清真寺，一个新时代的帷幕就此拉开。在这本《文明中心系列》的第九卷中，伯纳德-刘易斯描述了15至17世纪奥斯曼苏丹国的伟大时代的城市及其文明。在奥斯曼人的统治下，这座城市再次成为一个马甲帝国的中心和一个繁荣的文明。征服者并没有摧毁这座被俘的基督教城市，而是注意保护和美化；他们在圣索菲亚大教堂上增加了四座穆斯林尖塔，建造了许多他们自己的精美清真寺和宫殿，并将缩小的拜占庭城市的残余部分改造成一个新的、辉煌的帝国首都。他们创建的伟大的新穆斯林城市伊斯坦布尔成为文化和政治生活的中心。它是东方和西方之间的门户，是亚洲和欧洲发生冲突和融合的地方。它是苏丹和大维齐尔的所在地，是奥斯曼帝国政府的所在地。与政府概念和奥斯曼土耳其人奉行的穆斯林宗教一样有趣的是帝国的地方和家庭以及城市的人民。刘易斯先生依靠土耳其历史学家和诗人以及欧洲旅行者的第一手资料，从而使读者能够通过当代参与者和观察者的眼睛看到这个城市、它的人民以及他们的生活。

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