However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul). While the Ottoman Empire ruled the Muslim world ...

The Eames lounge chair and ottoman was created by the 20th-century ... chair was featured early on in Playboy magazine as a status symbol in some ways," Auscherman said. You feel cool in it.

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...