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Author : Bulent Rauf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Last Sultans written by Bulent Rauf and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Greenfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416558403
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Last Sultan written by Robert Greenfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, from Ray Charles to Kid Rock. Working alongside his older brother, Nesuhi, one of the preeminent jazz producers of all time, and the legendary Jerry Wexler, Ertegun transformed Atlantic Records from a small independent record label into a hugely profitable multinational corporation. In successive generations, he also served as a mentor to record-business tyros like Phil Spector, David Geffen, and Lyor Cohen. Brilliant, cultured, and irreverent, Ertegun was as renowned for his incredible sense of personal style and nonstop A-list social life as his work in the studio. Blessed with impeccable taste and brilliant business acumen, he brought rock 'n roll into the mainstream while creating the music that became the sound track for the lives of multiple generations.--From publisher description.
Author : Salih Gülen
Publisher : Blue Dome Press
ISBN 13 : 9781935295044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Ottoman Sultans written by Salih Gülen and published by Blue Dome Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultans of the Ottoman Dynasty ruled over a vast transcontinental empire for more than six centuries. Of the thirty-six Ottoman Sultans emerged extraordinary commanders, brilliant statesmen, highly talented sportsmen, masterful musicians, distinguished calligraphers, notable poets, and renowned composers. This book illustrates these men.
Author : Douglas S. Brookes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045533
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book On the Sultan's Service written by Douglas S. Brookes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne olacak? 'What is to become of things?'" Translated into English for the first time, this memoir provides fascinating first-hand insight into the personalities, intrigues, and inner workings of the Ottoman palace in its final decades. Written by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, who was First Secretary to Sultan Mehmed V and would go on to be one of Turkey's most famous novelists, On the Sultan's Service makes available to English readers the remarkable account of life and work in the Ottoman palace chancery—the public, "business" side of the palace—in its final incarnation. We learn of the court's new role under this second-to-last Sultan in post-Revolution Turkey. No longer exercising political power, the palace negotiated the minefields between political factions, sought ways to unite the empire in the face of sharpening nationalist aspirations, and faced with a kind of shocked despondency the opening salvos of the wars that were to overwhelm the country. Uşaklıgil includes interviews with the Imperial family and descriptions of royal nuptials, the palaces and its visitors, and the crises that shook the court. He delivers an insightful and moving portrait of Mehmed V, the elderly gentleman who reigned over the Ottoman Empire through both Balkan Wars and World War I.
Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597975842
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Shadow of the Sultan's Realm written by Daniel Allen Butler and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Author : Youssef Rakha
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566569910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (699 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Sultan's Seal written by Youssef Rakha and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PROFOUNDLY ORIGINAL DEBUT FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED EGYPTIAN WRITER Youssef Rakha’s extraordinary The Book of the Sultan’s Seal was published less than two weeks after then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, following mass protests, in February 2011. It’s hard to imagine a debut novel of greater urgency or more thrilling innovation. Modeled on a medieval Arabic manuscript in the form of a letter addressed to the writer’s friend, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal is made up of nine chapters, each centered on a drive our hero, Mustafa Çorbaci, takes around greater Cairo in the spring of 2007. Together these create a portrait of Cairo, city of post-9/11 Islam. In a series of dreams and visions, Mustafa Çorbaci encounters the spirit of the last Ottoman sultan and embarks on a mission the sultan assigns him. Çorbaci’s trials shed light on the contemporary Arab Muslim’s desperation for a sense of identity: Sultan’s Seal is both a suspenseful, erotic, riotous novel and an examination of accounts of Muslim demise. The way to a renaissance, Çorbaci’s journeys lead us to see, may have less to do with dogma and jihad than with love poetry, calligraphy, and the cultural diversity and richness within Islam. With his first novel, Rakha has created a language truly all his own—an achievement that has earned international acclaim. This profoundly original work both retells canonical Arabic classics and offers a new version of “middle Arabic,” in which the formal meets the vernacular. Now finally in English, in Paul Starkey’s masterful translation, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal will astonish new readers around the world.
Author : Allan R Gall
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1912643081
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)
Download or read book To Save an Empire written by Allan R Gall and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, when Russia attacks the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abduelhamit II must fight a devastating war to preserve his ethnically diverse territories that stretch across three continents. At home, he feels threatened from within by Mithat Pasha, a respected reformer, who has popular support for a constitution that would curb the sultan's authority and give the people a voice in their government. Aware of these challenges, Abduelhamit's Belgian wife, Flora Cordier, hopes to remain his confidante and helpmate as he decides how to govern: the iron-fisted rule of his ancestors, the democracy proposed by Mithat, or the diplomacy that exposes his weakened military power. No matter his choice, he is responsible for the suffering of his people.To Save an Empire explores the impact of religious and ethnic conflict in the Ottoman Empire of the late 19th century on the lives of ordinary people-Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Refugees flee atrocities that incite revenge, but also arouse charity and love. A story of love found and lost, of war and its consequences. Today's Balkans and Middle East emerge from the era's political forces of terrorism, imperialism, nationalism, and religion. It is a modern story.______________________________________________________________________________"e;[Gall]...artfully brings to life the political intrigues of an empire sliding into irrelevance. The Ottoman Empire emerges as a kind of protagonist all its own, eager to become strengthened by its embrace of modernity and the West, but also anxious about surrendering its cultural and religious identity. ... A magnificently researched tale of a troubled empire that's also dramatically captivating."e; - Kirkus reviews "e;Fiction as only history can tell it, all the more moving because we know it is not fiction. ...a compelling story."e; - Bulent Atalay, physicist and author of Math and the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's Universe
Author : Joan Haslip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842126295
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Sultan written by Joan Haslip and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling story of the Sultan who ruled Turkey for over three decades during a decisive period in its history
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590204492
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Grand Turk written by John Freely and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian and author of Strolling Through Istanbul presents a detailed portrait of the fifteenth century Ottoman sultan, revealing the man behind the myths. Sultan Mehmet II—known to his countrymen as The Conqueror, and to much of Europe as The Terror of the World—was once Europe's most feared and powerful ruler. Now John Freely, the noted scholar of Turkish history, brings this charismatic hero to life in evocative and authoritative biography. Mehmet was barely twenty-one when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. He reigned for thirty years, during which time his armies extended the borders of his empire halfway across Asia Minor and as far into Europe as Hungary and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Christian Europe came face to face with a new Muslim empire. Revered by the Turks and seen as a brutal tyrant by the West, Mehmet was a brilliant military leader as well as a renaissance prince. His court housed Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers, and Italian scholars and artists. In The Grand Turk, Freely sheds vital new light on this enigmatic ruler.
Author : Jane Johnson
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385670001
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
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.
Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0345469402
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
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.
Author : Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560956
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Universal Empire written by Peter Fibiger Bang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from ancient history, to literary and philosophical studies, to the history of art and international relations and historical sociology. The notion of universal, imperial rule is presented as an elusive and much coveted prize among monarchs in history, around which developed forms of kingship and political culture. Different facets of the phenomenon are explored under three, broadly conceived, headings: symbolism, ceremony and diplomatic relations; universal or cosmopolitan literary high-cultures; and, finally, the inclination to present universal imperial rule as an expression of cosmic order.
Author : Ridvan Akbay
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Grim Fate of the Last Sultan written by Ridvan Akbay and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vahdettin, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire is the only sultan whose tomb is not in Turkey. Why is this? Why is his tomb not beside his forefathers? The tombs of the previous sultans of the empire are all within the borders of Turkey. There are two complete opposite versions of the reigns end of Vahdettin. One version states that Vahdettin escaped out of the capital city of Istanbul, to save his own life, at the end of the empire. The second version states that he resigned from his position, and left abroad, to allow the smooth transition of the newly formed Republic of Turkey. To this day in Turkey, and the academics who studies the empire, the debate is not concluded, whether the last sultan escaped to save his life, or left at his own freewill. This is a heartfelt story of Vahdettin, but, the focus will be on the latter years of the last sultan of the empire. Please order the book, and read the gripping story. Thank you.
Author : Carl F. Petry
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421406
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Protectors or Praetorians? written by Carl F. Petry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-11-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdened by irremedial bankruptcy and endemic sedition, he initiated the first steps toward innovation since the architects of the Mamluk system founded the regime during the thirteenth century.
Author : Ayşe Osmanoğlu
Publisher : Ayşe Osmanoğlu
ISBN 13 : 1916361412
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus written by Ayşe Osmanoğlu and published by Ayşe Osmanoğlu. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers bound by blood but fated to be enemies. Can their Empire survive or will it crumble into myth? Istanbul, 1903. Since his younger brother usurped the Imperial throne, Sultan Murad V has been imprisoned with his family for nearly thirty years. The new century heralds immense change. Anarchy and revolution threaten the established order. Powerful enemies plot the fall of the once mighty Ottoman Empire. Only death will bring freedom to the enlightened former sultan. But the waters of the Bosphorus run deep: assassins lurk in shadows, intrigue abounds, and scandal in the family threatens to bring destruction of all that he holds dear… For over six hundred years the history of the Turks and their vast and powerful Empire has been inextricably linked to the Ottoman dynasty. Can this extraordinary family, and the Empire they built, survive into the new century? Set against the magnificent backdrop of Imperial Istanbul, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is a spellbinding tale of love, duty and sacrifice. Evocative and utterly beguiling, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is perfect for fans of Colin Falconer, Kate Morton and Philippa Gregory. "A richly woven carpet of a book." Historical Novel Society "With intelligence and sensitivity, Ayşe recreates the dramatic story of our family." Kenize Mourad, author of the international best-seller Regards from the Dead Princess
Author : Selmin Kangal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789754582192
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Sultan's Portrait written by Selmin Kangal and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781784535353
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Inside the Seraglio written by John Freely and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Viking, 1999.
