In the Palaces of the Sultan
Author : Anna Bowman Dodd
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Constantinople
ISBN :
Author : Anna Bowman Dodd
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Constantinople
ISBN :
Author : Douglas S. Brookes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0253045533
"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 : Chris Hellier
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The Bosphorus - the strait which separates European and Asian Turkey - is one of the world's most beautiful and romantic waterways, eulogized by Byron and many other travellers. Here Eastern and Western cultures meet in the architecture of houses and palaces built along its shores by generations of Ottoman families and sultans.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780271042725
Author : Murat Bardakçi
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617978442
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdülmecid; in 1924 Abdülmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart.
Author : Jane Johnson
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385670001
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 : Büke Uras
Publisher :
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture, Ottoman
ISBN : 9786055495671
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784535353
Originally published: London: Viking, 1999.
Author : Thomas Allom
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1839
Category :
ISBN :