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  • Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

    The Intriguing Legacy of Ibrahim Pasha: Political Dynamics in the Ottoman Empire

    In "Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent," Hester Donaldson Jenkins presents an intricate examination of one of the Ottoman Empire'Äôs most influential figures during the 16th century. Blending rigorous historical research with a vivid narrative style, Jenkins unravels the complexities of Ibrahim Pasha's political and personal life. The text delves into the rich tapestry of ... Read more

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  • Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

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    In 'Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent,' Hester Donaldson Jenkins meticulously recounts the life and influence of one of the Ottoman Empire's most pivotal figures. The book delves into the complexities of Ibrahim Pasha's political acumen, personal relationships, and his role in shaping the policies of Sultan Suleiman. Jenkins employs a blend of narrative history and detailed ... Read more

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  • Ibrahim Pasha

    Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

    Ibrahim was a Christian of base extraction, the son of a Greek sailor of Parga. He was born in 1494. In his childhood he was captured by Turkish corsairs. It would seem that he was first sold to a widow of Magnesia, who clothed him well and had him well educated, and especially trained to perform upon a musical instrument resembling the violin, which he learned to play beautifully.Whether it was ... Read more

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  • Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

    "Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent" by Hester Donaldson Jenkins delves into the life of one of the most influential figures in the Ottoman Empire. Ibrahim Pasha, a close confidant and advisor to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, played a crucial role in the administration and military campaigns of the empire. Jenkins meticulously explores Ibrahim's rise from a humble background ... Read more

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  • Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

    The life of Ibrahim Pasha, as full of strange events as the most highly‐colored romance, paradoxical, and to western students of society almost incomprehensible in its rapid changes, is very difficult to place soberly before Occidental readers; yet its very strangeness is typical of the Orient, and if we could understand this romantic life we might find we held a key to much in Turkish life and ... Read more

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  • THE DARKNESS COMPENDIUM VOL. 2

    Series series THE DARKNESS
    story JENKINS, MARZ, HESTER, TIERI, LAPHAM, and FIALKOVart KEOWN, BROUSSARD, PORTACIO, LUCAS, MONTIEL, and DENHAM cover BROUSSARDThe twisted journey of Jackie Estacado, bearer of The Darkness, an elemental force that allows those who wield it access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there, continues! Follow Jackie as he returns from Hell itself to seek revenge ... Read more

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  • Osman's Dream

    The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923

    The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hungary to the Persian ... Read more

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  • Suleiman the Magnificent

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    Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad. Faced with this redoubtable champion, who regarded it as his duty to extend the boundaries of Islam farther and farther, the Christian world ... Read more

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  • Empress of the East

    How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina

    The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon

    A fascinating biography of Ottoman Greece and Albania's notorious despot—a major player in the power struggles of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and ... Read more

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    The Saljuq Turks' defeat of the Byzantines at Manzikert opened the way for their conquest of Anatolia and domination of the Near East.On 26 August 1071 a large Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV met the Saljuq Turk forces of Sultan Alp Arslan near the town of Manzikert. The battle ended in a decisive defeat for the Byzantine forces, with the Byzantine emperor captured and much of his fabled ... Read more

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