Suleiman the Magnificent, the most extraordinary of all Ottoman sultans, led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean, and established his court in Baghdad. He regarded it as his duty to extend the boundaries of Islam farther and farther, and the Christian world could not agree to unite against him: Charles ...
Harun al-Rashid, the legendary caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, was the son of a Yemenite slave who cleared Harun's path to power, very probably by poisoning her eldest son. Harun reigned for a quarter of a century, his empire spreading over south-west Asia and into north Africa. He waged war on the Byzantine Empire, and dealt ...
A symbol of the fabled Orient, Harun al-Rashid, the caliph portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, was the son of a Yemenite slave who cleared his path to power, very probably by poisoning the reigning caliph, her older son. Through Arab chronicles. account of Harun's development as a ruler.
A biography of Suleiman the Magnificent, the most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, who kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. Clot examines how, in just a few years, The Shadow of God on Earth led his army--the most powerful in the sixteenth century--as far as the gates of Vienna, making himself master of the Mediterranean. Also discussed ...
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