With the fall of Belgrade in 1521 and Rhodes in 1522 a new stage in East-West relations begins. In this period, an important change takes place in the Ottoman attitude to the Jihad, or rather in the structure of the state. The Ottoman state was no longer a border-states of ghazis on the bounds of the Islamic world: It now embraced the most important countries of the Muslim world and had in fact become the Caliphate itself.
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