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THE SULTAN'S WIVES by Tracy Sinclair,Yoshiko Hanatsu Pdf
Fearless freelance photojournalist Pippa goes to the small Arabic country of Sharribai to chase a story. She’s heard it’s a strict monarchy where harems still exist, and she wants to find out the truth. But Pippa is mistaken for a spy and arrested upon arrival. Sultan Mikolar suggests she become his lover in exchange for her release and an exclusive interview with him. When Pippa accepts his proposal, she soon finds herself falling for him…and uncovering a dark palace conspiracy!
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.
Thirty years ago, we have published The Ottoman Harem in Turkish and I have given a copy to Şükran Vahide (Mary Weld) to evaluate and to translate to English. She has translator the Risâle-i Nur Collection completely and is a native in English. When she had completed the translation, she told me “Dr. Akgunduz! I have enjoyed translating this book and I think that this book is very important in historical and religious sense.” I have spent five years preparing this work Male and Female Slavery in Islam and the Ottoman Ḫarem. The product of those five years’ work has now been published in English. The subjects discussed in this book are as follows: Part One; the distortions and misrepresentations of male and female slavery and the Ḫarem, together with some examples. Part Two; male and female slavery in non-Muslim societies and in other religions. Part Three; the institutions of male and female slavery in Islamic law. Part Four; aspects of the practice of slavery, male and female, in the Ottoman state. Part Five; an investigation of the question: what is the Ḫarem? Part Six; a lady governess’s memoirs of the Ḫarem. Part Seven; the replies to a number of important questions on these subjects. My request of readers is that they read the sections they are interested in, and particularly that they study Parts One, Five, and Seven. I realize that Part Two is a slight digression, but I am of the opinion that the comparison is necessary in order to illuminate slavery in Islam and in the Ottoman state. “Ahmed Cevdet Pasha says: “To own slaves in Islam is to be a slave.” What should be realized here is that Islam did not introduce slavery. So how was slavery practised in other societies and religions? How did other religions and peoples act towards slaves? Since “Everything is known through it opposites,” it is essential to know this in order to understand male and female slavery in Islamic law and the Ḫarem in Ottoman society. The women in the Sultan’s Ḫarem lived under very strict discipline. They lived an enclosed life in their apartments, just as they paid great attention to these matters when they were out on trips or travelling. Since it was thus, does it conform to historical fact to show them to be immodest and overly free and easy, as in the films made recently? Does this reflect history as it was lived or is it make-belief? This should be pondered over fairly and reasonably.”
The Women Who Built the Ottoman World by Muzaffer Özgüles Pdf
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires. One hitherto overlooked aspect of the Empire's remarkable cultural legacy was the role of powerful women - often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of sultans. These educated and discerning patrons left a great array of buildings across the Ottoman lands: opulent, lavish and powerful palaces and mausoleums, but also essential works for ordinary citizens, such as bridges and waterworks. Muzaffer OEzgule? here uses new primary scholarship and archaeological evidence to reveal the stories of these Imperial builders. Gulnu? Sultan for example, the favourite of the imperial harem under Mehmed IV and mother to his sons, was exceptionally pictured on horseback, travelled widely across the Middle East and Balkans, and commissioned architectural projects around the Empire. Her buildings were personal projects designed to showcase Ottoman power and they were built from Constantinople to Mecca, from modern-day Ukraine to Algeria. OEzgule? seeks to re-establish the importance of some of these buildings, since lost, and traces the history of those that remain. The Women Who Built the Ottoman World is a valuable contribution to the architectural history of the Ottoman Empire, and to the growing history of the women within it.
It Takes a Very Special Man to Win That Special Woman… Globe-hopping for the perfect scoop, fearless photojournalist Pippa Bennington sometimes landed in hot water. But this time the sassy redhead was in up to her emerald eyes! Taken captive by the alarmingly virile sultan of a dangerously exotic land, Pippa was promptly draped in diaphanous lingerie and clapped into his glittering palace harem. Helplessly awaiting Mikolar's princely punishment…or pleasure…could Pippa possibly escape this jam? Worse, once darkly romantic Mikolar made her his "wife"…would she even want to?
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.
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kashmir Under Sultans introduces the reader to a subject that begins with the foundation of the Sultanate and ends with the conquest of Kashmir by Akbar. During the Sultanate period, Kashmir had achieved a high standard of culture, but with the disappearance of her independence, her culture gradually declined. Poets, painters, and scholars had to leave the Valley and seek their livelihood elsewhere owing to the absence of local patronage. They then entered the service of the Mughal emperors and were added to the court, thereby lessening the cultural impoverishment of Kashmir. The book encloses political, social, economic and cultural activities that had a lasting influence on the Kashmir Valley in that period. It is of considerable value to social historians as Professor Mohibbul Hasan offers insights into political and cultural currents and crosscurrents in Kashmir. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Sheikh Najib blasted into Rosalind Lewis's life and staked a sultan's claim on her son! Her denial of the boy's royal lineage was met with deaf ears-and relentless kisses. When danger threatened, mother and child were whisked into Najib's exotic world, a faraway place where protection meant marriage. But with every night in the arms of her sheikh "husband," Rosalind's secret threatened to surface. Would the truth bring a bitter end-or a heartfelt vow?
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves by Gunja SenGupta,Awam Amkpa Pdf
In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East" in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of US slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency.
Author : Alfred J. Andrea Ph.D. Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA Page : 8025 pages File Size : 49,7 Mb Release : 2011-03-23 Category : History ISBN : 9781851099306
World History Encyclopedia [21 volumes] by Alfred J. Andrea Ph.D. Pdf
An unprecedented undertaking by academics reflecting an extraordinary vision of world history, this landmark multivolume encyclopedia focuses on specific themes of human development across cultures era by era, providing the most in-depth, expansive presentation available of the development of humanity from a global perspective. Well-known and widely respected historians worked together to create and guide the project in order to offer the most up-to-date visions available. A monumental undertaking. A stunning academic achievement. ABC-CLIO's World History Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive work to take a large-scale thematic look at the human species worldwide. Comprised of 21 volumes covering 9 eras, an introductory volume, and an index, it charts the extraordinary journey of humankind, revealing crucial connections among civilizations in different regions through the ages. Within each era, the encyclopedia highlights pivotal interactions and exchanges among cultures within eight broad thematic categories: population and environment, society and culture, migration and travel, politics and statecraft, economics and trade, conflict and cooperation, thought and religion, science and technology. Aligned to national history standards and packed with images, primary resources, current citations, and extensive teaching and learning support, the World History Encyclopedia gives students, educators, researchers, and interested general readers a means of navigating the broad sweep of history unlike any ever published.
Handbook of Mathematical Induction by David S. Gunderson Pdf
Handbook of Mathematical Induction: Theory and Applications shows how to find and write proofs via mathematical induction. This comprehensive book covers the theory, the structure of the written proof, all standard exercises, and hundreds of application examples from nearly every area of mathematics.In the first part of the book, the author discuss
Sultan's Wives, Or a Visit to the Seraglios (Classic Reprint) by L. Dunne Pdf
Excerpt from Sultan's Wives, or a Visit to the Seraglios Through the advice of friends I have altered the title of this book: The first edition was called a Trip to Constanti nople, the Women of Turkey, &c., 850. When writing it I had no idea of its being published, or that many of the general public would see it; I merely intended it for those who passed through or resided at Constantinople during the Crimean War; but from the many applications for copies, I am induced to have more printed, and to make this alteration, which it is thought will agree better with the reading, I have no pre tensions to writing, and when I assure you this is, my maiden attempt, perhaps, you may say Well, it is not so bad for a beginner. In my opinion a person about to write his first book, resembles one about to pop the question he is so bewildered to know how to commence; whereas practised writers or widowers do not feel so much concern except when pounds, shillings, and pence are in question. Some may say that it is all very well, but why do you make the alteration if it is not with the idea of making money? Decidedly it is; everyone wishes his undertaking to become as successful as possible; and although I may feel as desirous as my neighbours to pocket the cash, still I assure you my chief object is to try to prop up a readable sketch of a life in the Seraglios - which sketch I give not from heresay or sur mise, but from facts experienced both by Brown and myself. I am sorry I have described Brown's visit in the shape of a dream, but I thought it would be better to draw a veil of mystery over a portion of that midnight adventure when he really did visit the fair Belinda - not encumbered with slum ber, but with his eyes open to the fate which awaited him did the eunuchs but perceive him. For a trifling consideration an interpreter accompanied him, and thus it is I give so detailed an account of their conversation on the roof of the Seraglio not only Brown buti'your humble servant receivedletters from the ladies of the Seraglio, which a gentleman, who is now at the War Office, can certify, as our Greek Interpreter to whom I entrusted the interpretation of a few of the letters, informed him of it; this gentleman having held a high position at the Bosphorus, in the Civil Department. If any one should doubt my statement, they can, by enquiry, easily get to know who he is. There is also a person at the Tower, who is aware of it. I mention this merely to contradict the assertions of those inexperienced persons who state that it was or is impossible to carry on any correspondence with inmates of Seraglios. I am glad of this opportunity to contradict such statements, as in the absence of contradiction, some persons might fancy Brown's visit to the Seraglio, and other incidents to which I refer, were imaginary ideas, merely made up as home-spun yarns. I am aware, that, had a clever writer the opportunity which I had, he would be able to draw such a picture of Harem life, that would both surprise and amuse those not acquainted with eastern customs. I could not pourtray the thrilling as well as enchan ting scenes connected with these abodes of loneliness and intrigue the principal one, namely, the old Seraglio, which is the theme of my narrative, has latterly been consumed by fire. I wish it had occurred while we were there, we might at least have had an1 opportunity of assisting the ladies to escape from the flames. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com