From Slave to Sultan

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Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783515068611
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (686 download)

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Book Synopsis From Slave to Sultan by : Linda Northrup

Download or read book From Slave to Sultan written by Linda Northrup and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the greater part of the thirteenth century, the career of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, al-Mansur Qalawun, is of great interest for the light it sheds on the major themes of early Mamluk history: the emergence of a new political and administrative structure, characterized by increased militarization and mamlukization; the role of the caliphate and the nature of sultani authority; the problem of succession; Mamluk factionalism; Egyptian-Syrian relations; relations with Mongols and Crusaders; and the importance, not to mention the strategic and complex nature, of international trade in the Mamluk realm. Not only does this work fill a gap in knowledge of the early Mamluk period, complementing the studies we have of Baybars's and al-Nasir Muhammad's reigns, but it goes further than most in analyzing the institutions of the period, and uses hitherto neglected materials to illuminate theoretical and practical questions of Mamluk rule. With indices. "From Slave to Sultan is well written. The analysis is dense and packed with scholarship; it is one of those books of which specialists will devour the notes with even greater relish than they do the text... Graduate students in particular will be grateful for her first chapter, in which she introduces, describes, and evaluates the various sources." MESA Bulletin "This book a will unquestionably stand as the authoritative work on Qalawun for some time to come." School of Oriental & African Studies "Northrup is to be commended for undertaking this important, and much needed, project with her persistent efforts, meticulous and critical reading of the sources, sound methodology, and diligent presentation. The result is a definitive work on the political legacy of one of the most eminent early Mamluk sultans." Journal of Near Eastern Studies . (Franz Steiner 1998)

The Slave Who Became Sultan

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781723801075
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Slave Who Became Sultan by : Henry Moa

Download or read book The Slave Who Became Sultan written by Henry Moa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roukn al-Din Baybars was born in 1223 in a Turkish tribe Kipchak installed in the Ukrainian Plains. He was captured by Mongolians horsemen and sold to a Russian slave trafficker who takes him to the city of La Tana, Venetian traderpost installed on the edge of the Don River. There, he is bought at the slave market by a Venetian merchant who takes him in Syria, in the town of Sivas, where he is sold to the emir of Aleppo. He is incorporated in a school for young slaves. At the end of his training, he joined the guard of the emir. One day, he is spotted by the Sultan As-Salih Ayyub and buys him to the Emir of Aleppo. He then joined the guard Mamluk of the Sultan and moved to Cairo. In 1242, the Mongolians leave in the countryside for conquest the Middle East. In 1244, the Khwarezmians Turks take Jerusalem. The Pope called for a new crusade. The King of France, Louis IX, landed on the Egyptian coast and took the town of Damietta. On 20 November, the crusaders marched to Cairo. The two armies fight at Fariskour, near Mansoura. The Crusaders were defeated and the King of France is captured. The Egyptian Sultan as-Salih Ayyub was dead 23 November 1249. His wife, Chaddar ad-Dour, ensures the Regency. Once the Christian danger is distant, Turan Shah, son of as-Salih, is murdered. But a woman cannot rule in Muslim countries. To work around this situation, Chaddar ad-Dour married the emir Aybak and named him as Sultan. Aybak, by her depraved and violent conduct, becomes a problem. Chaddar ad-Dour assassinates him before suffering the same fate. The emirs are the most powerful of them, Kutuz, designate as Sultan in November 12, 1259. In autumn 1259, Hulegu, the khan of Central Asia resumed the offensive. In six months, the Syria is conquered. The way Egypt is free. But in the summer 1259 the great khan Mongka died. Hulegu leaves for the Mongolia. He leaves Kitbuga in command of his army. This one continued the offensive. In September 3, 1260, the two armies fight at Ain Jalut. Kitbuga was killed and the Mongolians flee. The Sultan Kutuz promised Aleppo to Baibars, hoping that he would be killed during the confrontation. After the battle, he gave the post to one of his followers. Baybars decided to kill him. In October 22, 1260, during a hunting party, he hands him an ambush and he give hom the first blow. His comrades finishe him. The present emirs proclaim Baybars as Sultan. He went immediately to Cairo, acclaimed by the people. During his years of reign, he leads a merciless combat to his enemies, Christians, Turks, Mongolian. He will make of Egypt and Syria, an Empire. The Empire of the Crowned Slaves which will reign on the Middle East until 1520. Baibars died aged 56 after 17 years of reign.

Empress of the East

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093094
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Empress of the East by : Leslie Peirce

Download or read book Empress of the East written by Leslie Peirce and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times). In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women, from Isabella of Hungary to Catherine de Medici, increasingly held the reins of power. Until now Roxelana has been seen as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.

Slavery in Turkey. The Sultan's Harem. A paper read before the Anthropological Society of London

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Total Pages : 34 pages
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Book Synopsis Slavery in Turkey. The Sultan's Harem. A paper read before the Anthropological Society of London by : Frederick MILLINGEN (called also Osman Bey and Vladimir Andreevich.)

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Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802421
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East by : Ehud R. Toledano

Download or read book Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East written by Ehud R. Toledano and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. Nevertheless, slavery provided a means of social mobility, conferring status and political power within the military, the bureaucracy, or the domestic household and formed an essential part of patronage networks. Ehud R. Toledano’s exploration of slavery from the Ottoman viewpoint is based on extensive research in British, French, and Turkish archives and offers rich, original, and important insights into Ottoman life and thought. In an attempt to humanize the narrative and take it beyond the plane of numbers, tables and charts, Toledano examines the situations of individuals representing the principal realms of Ottoman slavery, female harem slaves, the sultan’s military and civilian kuls, court and elite eunuchs, domestic slaves, Circassian agricaultural slaves, slave dealers, and slave owners. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East makes available new and significantly revised studies on nineteenth-century Middle Eastern slavery and suggests general approaches to the study of slavery in different cultures.

The Sultan's Shadow

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Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0345469402
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sultan's Shadow by : Christiane Bird

Download or read book The Sultan's Shadow written by Christiane Bird and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

White Gold

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Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1444717723
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Book Synopsis White Gold by : Giles Milton

Download or read book White Gold written by Giles Milton and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.

The Sultan's Wife

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Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385670001
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sultan's Wife by : Jane Johnson

Download or read book The Sultan's Wife written by Jane Johnson and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page-turning mystery, grandly seductive romance and full historical immersion into Moroccan court history, this exquisitely depicted and intensely absorbing novel follows in the bestselling tradition of The Tenth Gift and The Salt Road. 1677, Morocco. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain's son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he attempts to evade punishment for the bloody crime, Nus Nus finds himself trapped in a vicious plot, caught between the three most powerful figures in the court: the cruel and arbitrary sultan, Moulay Ismail, one of the most tyrannical rulers in history; his monstrous wife Zidana, famed for her use of poison and black magic; and the conniving Grand Vizier. Meanwhile, a young Englishwoman named Alys Swann has been taken prisoner by Barbary corsairs and brought to the court. She faces a simple choice: renounce her faith and join the Sultan's harem; or die. As they battle for survival, Alys and Nus Nus find themselves thrust into an unlikely alliance--an alliance that will become a deep and moving relationship in which these two outsiders will find sustenance and courage in the most perilous of circumstances. From the danger and majesty of Meknes to the stinking streets of London and the decadent court of Charles II, The Sultan's Wife brings to life some of the most remarkable characters of history through a captivating tale of intrigue, loyalty and desire.

The Circassian Slave

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734087899
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Circassian Slave by : Lieutenant Maturiene Murray

Download or read book The Circassian Slave written by Lieutenant Maturiene Murray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Circassian Slave by Lieutenant Maturiene Murray

A Sultan's Slave

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis A Sultan's Slave by : Louise Gerard

Download or read book A Sultan's Slave written by Louise Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islam's Black Slaves

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ISBN 13 : 9781903809815
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Islam's Black Slaves by : Ronald Segal

Download or read book Islam's Black Slaves written by Ronald Segal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islam's Back Slaves, Ronald Segal traces the business of slavery from the birth of Islam in seventh-century Arabia to the present, where, in Sudan and Mauritania, Africans continue to be bought and sold. It is the first book for a general readership to describe in detail the Islamic slave trade. It is also a valuable corrective to the view that the enslavement of Africans was a purely European question.

Slaves of Sultans

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Publisher : Alan Machado
ISBN 13 : 9380739931
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Slaves of Sultans by : Alan Machado (Prabhu)

Download or read book Slaves of Sultans written by Alan Machado (Prabhu) and published by Alan Machado. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves of Sultans is a vivid descent into the turbulent period when Eupropean States fought Indian rulers with arms and ideologies for India's riches and people

Tree of Pearls

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190873205
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Tree of Pearls by : D. Fairchild Ruggles

Download or read book Tree of Pearls written by D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband's death. Shajar al-Durr used her wealth and power to add a tomb to his urban madrasa; with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. A highly unusual case of a Muslim woman authorized to rule in her own name, her reign ended after only three months when she was forced to share her governance with an army general from the ranks of the Mamluks (elite slave soldiers) and for political expediency to marry him. Despite the fact that Shajar al-Durr's story ends tragically with her assassination and hasty burial, her deeds in her lifetime offer a stark alternative to the continued belief that women in the medieval period were unseen, anonymous, and inconsequential in a world that belonged to men. This biography--the first ever in English--will place the rise and fall of the sultan-queen in the wider context of the cultural and architectural development of Cairo, the city that still holds one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic monuments in the world. D. Fairchild Ruggles also situates the queen's extraordinary architectural patronage in relation to other women of her own time, such as Aleppo's Ayyubid regent. Tree of Pearls concludes with a lively discussion of what we can know about the material impact of women of both high and lesser social rank in this period, and why their impact matters in the writing of history.

The Circassian Slave, Or, the Sultan's Favorite

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Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781407628509
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Circassian Slave, Or, the Sultan's Favorite written by Maturin Murray and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783353
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher by : Douglas Scott Brookes

Download or read book The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher written by Douglas Scott Brookes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.

Slavery

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Publisher : Latif Communications Group Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780964011809
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Slavery by : Sultan A. Latif

Download or read book Slavery written by Sultan A. Latif and published by Latif Communications Group Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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