The Sultans

Author : Jane Johnson
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385670005

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The Sultan's Wife by Jane Johnson Pdf

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 : Jem Duducu
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445668611

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The Sultans by Jem Duducu Pdf

A history of 600 years - an epic story of a dynasty that started as a small group of cavalry mercenaries to become the absolute rulers of the greatest and longest lasting Islamic empire in history.

Author : Nurhan Atasoy,İrem Kınay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 161428105X

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Portraits and Caftans of the Ottoman Sultans by Nurhan Atasoy,İrem Kınay Pdf

From the founding of the Ottoman dynasty by Osman Gazi to Suleyman the Magnificent's legendary territorial conquests, the legacy of the 36 Ottoman sultans has undeniably left its mark throughout the course of history. Featuring exquisite portraits and lavishly decorated caftans, this large-format volume beautifully presents imagery that speaks to the magnificence of the Ottoman Empire and its powerful sultans. AUTHOR: Professor Nurhan Atasoy completed her PhD in Fine Arts and Art History in 1962 at Istanbul University. She currently serves as the resident scholar at the Turkish Cultural Foundation, where she regularly gives lectures on Turkish art. Professor Atasoy is a founder and board member of the Association of the Museum of Painting and Sculpture in Istanbul; KÜSAV (Foundation for the Promotion and Preservation of Culture and Art Works); and TAÇ (Foundation for the Preservation of Monuments, Environment and Tourism in Turkey). She has lectured on Turkish and Islamic art at congresses throughout the world; curated international exhibitions; and has published over 100 articles and 22 books on the subject, including Iznik: Ottoman Pottery of Turkey, (1989); IPEK: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets (2001); and Impressions of Ottoman Culture in Europe (2012). 74 illustrations

Author : Alexandra Sellers
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459204344

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The Sultan's Heir by Alexandra Sellers Pdf

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?

Author : Ibn Mubārak Shāh
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780863561818

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The Sultan's Feast by Ibn Mubārak Shāh Pdf

The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warrāq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes) containing over 600 recipes. It would take another three and half centuries for cookery books to be produced in the European continent. Until then, gastronomic writing remained the sole preserve of the Arab-Muslim world, with cooking manuals and recipe books being written from Baghdad, Aleppo and Egypt in the East, to Muslim Spain, Morocco and Tunisia in the West. A total of nine complete cookery books have survived from this time, containing nearly three thousand recipes. First published in the fifteenth century, The Sultan's Feast by the Egyptian Ibn Mubārak Shāh features more than 330 recipes, from bread-making and savoury stews, to sweets, pickling and aromatics, as well as tips on a range of topics. This culinary treatise reveals the history of gastronomy in Arab culture. Available in English for the first time, this critical bilingual volume offers a unique insight into the world of medieval Arabic gastronomic writing.

Author : Norah M. Titley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781134268078

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The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu by Norah M. Titley Pdf

"There is only one known copy of the Sultan's Book of Delights in existence and it is held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (BL. Persian 149). The manuscript is illustrated with fifty elegant miniature paintings, most of which show the Sultan, Ghiyath Shahi, observing the women of his court as they prepare and serve him various dishes. The book is fascinating in that the text documents a remarkable stage in the history of Indian cookery whilst the miniatures demonstrate the influence of imported Persian artists on the style of the Indian artists employed in Ghiyath Shahi's academy."--Jacket.

Author : Noel Barber
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034900707

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The Sultans by Noel Barber Pdf

The subject of this vast, astonishing and brilliantly readable work of history is the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire, seen through the lives and actions of its sultans, with their absolute power and terrifying cruelty, their love of pomp and magnificence and their overwhelming venality and corruption. The author describes the men, the events, the daily life, the strange customs of Turkey's court, from her emergence as a great power in the sixteenth century to the death of Kemal Ataturk, who overthrew the Sultanate to establish a new and more modern form of tyranny. This book is a unique and fascinating record of four centuries of glory, debauchery, splendor and cruelty. --from inside jacket flap.

Author : Alain Grosrichard
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859841228

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Sultan's Court by Alain Grosrichard Pdf

A survey of Western accounts of "Oriental despotism" in the 17th and 18th centuries, focusing particularly on portrayals of the Ottoman empire and the supposedly enigmatic structure of the despot's court - the seraglio - with its viziers, dwarfs, mutes, eunuchs and countless wives.

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Youssef Rakha
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566569915

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The Book of the Sultan's Seal by Youssef Rakha Pdf

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 : Mohibbul Hasan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003830818

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Kashmir Under the Sultans by Mohibbul Hasan Pdf

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)

Author : Doç. Dr. Raşit GÜNDOĞDU
Publisher : Rumuz Yayınları
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9786055112158

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The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire by Doç. Dr. Raşit GÜNDOĞDU Pdf

The Ottomans, who patronaged the muslim and non-muslim nations from Indonesia to Spain, from the Crimea to Yemeni always pursued justice and brought it to the lands they conquered, as well as development and civilization without any language, religion and race discrimination. Only the Ottomans was bestowed with establishing a government ruled by 36 sultans, lasted for 622 years uninterrupted in the history of the world. The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, from Osman Ghazi to Vahdettin Khan who ascended the throne had done important works as much as possible to keep the state on its feet, for the public welfare and content. Today, as the archives are opened and new documents are emerged, many secrets about the sultans and their periods come out.

Author : Salah El-Behnasi,Ali Gaballa Gaballa,Abdulla Abdel Amir El-Attar, Mohamed Hossam El-Din,Mohamed Abd El-Aziz,Atef Abdel Hamid Ghoneim,Medhat El-Manabbawi,Ali Ateya,Ali Torky,Gamal Gad El-Rab
Publisher : Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783902782038

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Mamluk Art: The Splendour and Magic of the Sultans by Salah El-Behnasi,Ali Gaballa Gaballa,Abdulla Abdel Amir El-Attar, Mohamed Hossam El-Din,Mohamed Abd El-Aziz,Atef Abdel Hamid Ghoneim,Medhat El-Manabbawi,Ali Ateya,Ali Torky,Gamal Gad El-Rab Pdf

Author : Christian Mauder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004444218

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In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols) by Christian Mauder Pdf

Building on his award-winning research, Christian Mauder’s In the Sultan’s Salon constitutes the first detailed study of the intellectual, religious, and political culture of the court of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the most important polities in Islamic history.

Author : Stefano Carboni,David Whitehouse
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Glassware
ISBN : 9780870999864

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Glass of the Sultans by Stefano Carboni,David Whitehouse Pdf

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that brings together more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking. Included are the principal types of pre-industrial glass from Egypt, the Middle East, and India in a comprehensive array of shapes, colors, and techniques such as glassblowing, the use of molds, the manipulation of molten glass with tools, and the application of molten glass to complete or decorate an object. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.