Marc David Baer

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely readable' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times 'A wildly ambitious and entertainingly lurid history' - James Barr, The Times 'A panoramic and thought-provoking account' - Guardian 'A winning portrait of seven centuries of empire, teeming with life and colour' - Sunday...

Children of Abraham was selected as a Financial Times Book to Read in 2026. Muslims and Jews have engaged with one another—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse—for over 1,400 years. Yet, recent discourse tends to focus on only the most antagonistic aspects of the two communities' interactions. Marc David Baer paints a more nuanced picture of Muslim-Jewish relations, from Muhammad's...

The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans' remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire,...