Author: Georges DorysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Private Life of the Sultan of Turkey
Author: Georges DorysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Neslishah
Author: Murat BardakçiPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617978442
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
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.
Inside the Seraglio
Author: John FreelyPublisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781784535353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Originally published: London: Viking, 1999.
The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662)
Author: Evliya ÇelebiPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791406403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Robert Dankoff has culled passages from Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels that deal directly with the life and times of Çelebi's patron, Melek Ahmed Pasha, an outstanding seventeenth-century military and administrative leader. Çelebi's account is sensitive to all the currents of his age and reflects them in his narrative. His wry comments and observations extend from the intimate details of daily life, and the attitudes of the lower classes, to the deeds of the mighty, the ideals of the age, and the fate of the empire. He concentrates on the later phase of Pasha's career, beginning with his appointment as Grand Vizier in 1650. Because Çelebi was Pasha's confidant as well as his protege, there is a level of intimacy, almost a psychological portrait, quite unusual in Ottoman and Islamic literature. The narrative highlights the private side of this public figure -- his weaknesses as well as his heroics; his religious life and domestic affairs -- in particular, his relations with his two successive wives, both sultanas or princesses.
Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena
Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las CasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. [Translated from the French.] [With Plates, Including a Portrait and a Map.]
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Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las CasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Pearson's Magazine
Author: The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
Author: Joseph LeContePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.
The Bookman
Author: Harem Histories
Author: Marilyn BoothPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348691
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.