What are the similarities between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Both originated from the plain nomads in central asian. They also both were terrible and were conquered by the Europeans eventually.

Answer 2

There are a vast number of similarities between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires.

1. Both empires were founded by Oghuz Türks coming from what is now Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The leadership of the empire consistently remained Turkish and would be titled as Sultans.
2. Both empires were founded with a basis in Sunni Islam and implemented a moderated form of Shari'a law as the primary law of their empires along with some forms of basic secular law.
3. Both empires were founded, expanded, and defended through acts of warfare, but often engaged peacefully in trade and development with their neighbors when the wars were not going on.
4. Both empires had a vast majority of Non-Turkish subjects. In the case of the Ottomans, there were large numbers of Slavs and Greeks in the Balkans, Arabs in the Middle East, Amazigh in North Africa, and Jews, Armenians, and Kurds sprinkled throughout the empire. In the case of the Mughal, there were large numbers of Indians from the various provinces of India, composing many religious groups such as the Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians.
5. Both maintained a strongly de-federalized system of administration, where local auliyaa / governors (in the Ottoman Empire) or local maharaja / princes (in the Mughal Empire) wielded a lot of power in local affairs and the Sultans of the Empire would manage primarily national issues.
6. Both empires implemented periods of decent treatment of minority religious groups and periods of harsh treatment for them with different emperors.
7. Neither empire gave women strong rights and slavery was legal in both states.

Answer 2

Both the Pope and the Jewish Rabbi wear a yamaka.