The Sultan S Harem

Author : Douglas Scott Brookes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292783355

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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher by Douglas Scott Brookes Pdf

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.

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780609808894

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When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer Pdf

Re-creates the life and loves of the storied queen as she ascends the throne of Egypt, embarks on passionate love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and struggles with the intrigues of the Roman Empire.

Author : Raphael Amadore
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511855355

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Harem Secrets by Raphael Amadore Pdf

Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, has a harem of three hundred beautiful concubines. His soul and eyes desire only one; the one who makes him a poet. Only one makes him long for her every touch. What is her aphrodisiac? Roxelana, known as Hurrem-The Cheerful One in the harem has a brilliant mind within her irresistible body. She holds a 75 year old secret that could sow seeds of destruction in the Ottoman Sultanate; a secret granted her by none other than the Sultan's own mother. What is this secret curse? What power does Roxelana wield over Suleyman that he would break tradition and make her queen? Is it simply love or something more that tempts the Sultan? Why does she learn the ancient art of Kama Sutra from an Indian princess in the harem and then send Suleyman to war? And why would the Sultan's mother entrust the great secret to a mere harem girl? Rich with eroticism of the harem and the twisting, intrigues of the empire ruled from Topkapi palace, Harem Secrets creates embroidery of compelling plots since the fall of Constantinople. At the height of power, two figures change world history in Europe and Asia; history that was later influenced through a legendary harem dancer, Anarkali of Ottoman origins. Her mystery continues into the Palaces of Mogul emperors.

Author : Leslie P. Peirce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0195086775

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The Imperial Harem by Leslie P. Peirce Pdf

The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Crown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0609610309

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The Sultan's Harem by Colin Falconer Pdf

From the author of the critically acclaimedWhen We Were Godscomes a dramatic, unforgettable novel of cruelty and passion, set in the great Harem of the Ottoman Empire. In Constantinople there is only one ruler: Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, Lord of Lords of this World, Possessor of Men’s Necks, Allah’s Deputy, absolute ruler of the mighty Ottoman Empire. And at the heart of his palace is the Sultan’s vast Harem, the domain of hundreds of scented, pampered women—some wives, some concubines, some merely slaves. Among them is Gülbehar, the Sultan’s submissive favorite and mother of his heir; Julia, the daughter of an Italian lord, kidnapped when she attempted to flee Venice with her lover; and Hürrem, a Tartar girl from the Russian steppes, sold into slavery. All three women are beautiful, but Hürrem is the most dangerous—ruthless in her desire to rule the Harem and, ultimately, Süleyman himself. Endlessly manipulative and clever, she carefully arranges the downfall of her rivals and endears herself to the Sultan, who places her at the center of the Empire’s power. It is his obsession with Hürrem—not his enemies—that in the end costs Süleyman his allies, his sons, and finally his dynasty. Bestselling author Colin Falconer offers an irresistible glimpse into a world of intrigue, sensuality, and violence, where an empire can be controlled not by the might of its king but by the women hidden behind the Harem walls.

Author : Annie West
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Presents 90s
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Harems
ISBN : 0373137915

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The Sultan's Harem Bride by Annie West Pdf

WANTED: Desert princess to join harem Sultan Asim of Jazeer has hundreds of women at his beck and call. So why does he want the only one who threatens to reveal his family's shameful secrets? Journalist Jacqui Fletcher jumped at the chance to write a history of the harem--not to become a sultan's plaything! But it's hard to remember her assignment when the sultan's sensuous caresses spark a fire she's never experienced before... Asim is looking for a pliable princess for a marriage of duty. Brave, beautiful Jacqui couldn't be more wrong for him. So why does holding her feel so right?

Author : Jillian Lauren
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780452296312

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Some Girls by Jillian Lauren Pdf

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

Author : Allan Aldiss
Publisher : Bondage Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907833021

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Slaves of the Sultan 2 - Unwilling Concubines by Allan Aldiss Pdf

Allan Aldiss has written many stories about life in make-believe harems. However, this one is different. It is about life in a real harem: the harem of Abdul the Dammed, almost the last of the Sultans of Turkey, who about a hundred years ago was the all-powerful Ruler of the still vast Ottoman Empire.

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108295

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The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem by Jane Hathaway Pdf

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488365

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Life after the Harem by Betül İpşirli Argit Pdf

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

Author : Leslie Peirce
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093090

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Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce Pdf

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.

Author : Alum Bati
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781425157500

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Harem Secrets by Alum Bati Pdf

1530, Istanbul. In the centre of empire lurks sexual depravity, murder, intrigue, lies, spies, and deceit. Adam Pasha, the Chief Justice, investigates a death in the Imperial Harem.

Author : Norman Mosley Penzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Harems
ISBN : 9756898011

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The Sultans' Harem by Norman Mosley Penzer Pdf

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621250709

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Harem by Colin Falconer Pdf

Colin Falconer is the best selling author of WHEN WE WERE GODS and AZTEC and over twenty other novels. His books have been translated into seventeen languages. "A page-turner . . . This peek behind the walls of the seraglio will seduce lovers of large-scale historical fiction." - Booklist He had everything a man might dream of; wealth, power and the choice of hundreds of the most beautiful women in his Empire. Why then did he forsake his harem for the love of just one woman, and marry her in defiance of the centuries-old code of the Osmanlis? This is the astonishing story of Suleiman, the one they called the Magnificent, and the woman he loved. Suleiman controlled an empire of thirty million people, encompassing twenty different languages. As a man, he was an enigma; he conquered all who stood against him with one of the world's first full time professional armies - yet he liked to write poetry; he ravaged half of Europe but he rebuilt Istanbul in marble; he had teams of torturers and assassins ready to unleash at a whim - yet history remembers him as a great lawmaker. ''Harem' literally means 'Forbidden': Forbidden to men. Once the Sultan was the only man - the only complete man - who could pass through its iron-studded doors. But what was that world really like? For a woman living in the Harem the only way out was to somehow find her way into the Sultan's bed and bear him a son. But the young Sultan was often away at war and when he did return he neglected his harem for just one favourite wife. But one young Russian concubine inside his seraglio was not content to allow fate decide the course of her life. She was clever and she was ruthless. And she had a plan. Into this world are drawn two unforgettable characters; a beautiful young Italian noblewoman, captured by corsairs and brought to the Harem as a concubine; and the eunuch who loved her once, long ago, in Venice. Loved her? He still stopped loving her . From medieval Venice to the slave markets of Algiers, from the mountains of Persia to the forbidden seraglio of the Ottoman's greatest sultan, this is a tale of passion and intrigue in a world where nothing is really as it seems.

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980265747

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A Great Love of Small Proportion by Colin Falconer Pdf

A medieval romance set in Seville and the last days of the Alhambra from internationally bestselling author, Colin Falconer. Diego Sanchis is Seville's most famous painter; his glorious art fills every church in the famous city. But for all the beauty in his soul, Diego himself is no oil painting. He sees beauty everywhere, but what beauty will ever look at him? Until one day he is asked to take on a new student. Mercedes Goncalvez is the most desired young woman in the city, and her father is rich and powerful. They are so utterly different - but they discover their souls are the same. But these are dangerous days to defy convention. Beyond the dungeons of the Inquisition, to overcome betrayal and torture; even as the Christian cannons are turned towards the heavenly gardens of the Alhambra, can Diego and Mercedes cling to true beauty among the ashes of last hope? A story of love, art and genius, perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir "History and romance combine in this highly entertaining novel. I fell in love with Diego and his biting sarcasm and propensity to be bluntly honest. He is real, loveable, and easy to sympathize with. Likewise is Mercedes who struggles to break through the norms of the era to become an artist by her own right. Another winning novel by Colin Falconer that is filled with wit and suspense! Beautifully rendered and highly recommended!" History and Women ***** DISCOVER MORE COLIN FALCONER HISTORICAL FICTION CLASSIC HISTORY: Book 1: SILK ROAD Book 2: HAREM Book 3: A VAIN AND INDECENT WOMAN Book 4: CLEOPATRA: Daughter of the Nile Book 5: AZTEC Book 6: STIGMATA Book 7: EAST INDIA Book 8: A GREAT LOVE OF SMALL PROPORTION ISABELLA: Braveheart of France (published by LAKE UNION) 20TH CENTURY STORIES: Book 1: ANASTASIA Book 2: MY BEAUTIFUL SPY Book 3: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Book 4: LIVE FOR ME THE UNKILLABLE KITTY O'KANE (published by LAKE UNION) LOVING LIBERTY LEVINE (published by LAKE UNION) COLIN FALCONER CRIME: VENOM LUCIFER FALLS (published by Little, Brown London) INNOCENCE DIES (published by Little, Brown London)