The Sultan And The Queen
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The Sultan And The Queen
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Author : Jerry Brotton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-09-20
The Sultan And The Queen written by Jerry Brotton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with History categories.
The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth’s secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence. The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes—and reveals how Elizabeth’s fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by England’s first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.
The Sultan And The Mermaid Queen
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Author : Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
language : en
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Release Date : 2008
The Sultan And The Mermaid Queen written by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski and has been published by Editions Didier Millet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen is a collection of essays and articles which describe rarely written-about Asian people, places and events.
The Queen S Ambassador To The Sultan
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Author : Sinan Kuneralp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-02-08
The Queen S Ambassador To The Sultan written by Sinan Kuneralp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-08 with categories.
This Orient Isle
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Author : Jerry Brotton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-03-31
This Orient Isle written by Jerry Brotton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with History categories.
In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment with the Muslim powers who were fighting Catholic Spain in the Mediterranean, and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not experienced again until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from the kings of Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakesh. By the late 1580s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Elizabethan merchants, diplomats, sailors, artisans and privateers were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. They included the resourceful mercer Anthony Jenkinson who met both Süleyman the Magnificent and the Persian Shah Tahmasp in the 1560s, William Harborne, the Norfolk merchant who became the first English ambassador to the Ottoman court in 1582 and the adventurer Sir Anthony Sherley, who spent much of 1600 at the court of Shah Abbas the Great. The previous year, remarkably, Elizabeth sent the Lancastrian blacksmith Thomas Dallam to the Ottoman capital to play his clockwork organ in front of Sultan Mehmed. The awareness of Islam which these Englishmen brought home found its way into many of the great cultural productions of the day, including most famously Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and The Merchant of Venice. The year after Dallam's expedition the Moroccan ambassador, Abd al-Wahid bin Mohammed al-Annuri, spent six months in London with his entourage. Shakespeare probably began to write Othello six months later. This Orient Isle shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. It is a startlingly unfamiliar picture of part of our national and international history.
Empress Of The East
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Author : Leslie Peirce
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Empress Of The East written by Leslie Peirce and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with History categories.
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power. Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
Sovereign Women In A Muslim Kingdom
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Author : Sher Banu A.L Khan
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Sovereign Women In A Muslim Kingdom written by Sher Banu A.L Khan and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with History categories.
The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources, this book shows that female rule was legitimised both by Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws), and provides original insights on the Sultanah's leadership, their relations with male elites, and their encounters with European envoys who visited their court. The book challenges received views on kingship in the Malay world and the response of indigenous polities to east-west encounters in Southeast Asia's Age of Commerce.
Queen Of The Valley
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Author : Sidney Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-23
Queen Of The Valley written by Sidney Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-23 with categories.
The daughter of the wise and powerful Sultan is being sent to marry an unsavory Sheik on the outskirts of the Sultan's territory as punishment for her strong will and stubborn ways.
The Sultan S Choice
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Author : Abby Green
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Release Date : 2016-01-01
The Sultan S Choice written by Abby Green and has been published by Harlequin / SB Creative this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Shy, stutter-prone Samia has been told that she’s a gangly, gawky girl who will never amount to anything, but thanks to her royal bloodline, she’s been prepared and presented as a woman fit to rule. And even ifshe can’t marry for love, she can at least be wed off for the sake of diplomacy. After seeing the way the way his father treated his mother, Sadiq thought that he would never love, so when these two are united, they expect nothing to come from it. Yet their desert kingdom of romance may soon grow roses of love…
The Unforgettable Queens Of Islam
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Author : Shahla Haeri
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-26
The Unforgettable Queens Of Islam written by Shahla Haeri and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A cross-cultural and ethno-historical perspective exploring the lives and legacies of several Muslim women rulers from medieval to modern times.
The Sultan S Wife
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Author : Jane Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-05
The Sultan S Wife written by Jane Johnson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
A sweeping historical adventure, set in 17th-century Morocco, from the bestselling author of Court of Lions. Morocco, 1677 The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave to the king, is sent to the apothecary. There he discovers the bloody corpse of the herb man, and becomes entangled in a plot to frame him for the murder. Meanwhile, young, fair Alys Swann is captured during her crossing to England, where she is due to be wed. Sold into Ismail's harem, she is forced to choose: renounce her faith or die. An unlikely alliance develops between Alys and Nus Nus, one that will help them to survive the horrifying ordeals of King Ismail's court. Brimming with rich historical detail and peppered with real characters, from Charles I to Samuel Pepys, The Sultan's Wife is a story of enduring love and adventure. 'Jane Johnson writes the sort of books you want to tell everyone about... I'm addicted' Katie Fforde 'An utterly compelling story' Stuart MacBride 'An irresistible page turner – I loved it' Barbara Erskine 'Full of intrigue, deceit, skulduggery and murder' Ben Kane