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Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans of Istanbul by John Freely (Paperback, 2000)

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Here the Sultan took his ease surrounded by his wives and concubines with their guardian black eunuchs, amused by his favourite pages, dwarfs and mutes, his younger brothers either slaughtered upon his accession or confined to the prison of the Cage.

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This volume takes us behind the doors of Topkapi Sarayi and the other palaces of the Ottoman sultans who for more than six centuries ruled one of the world's most powerful empires. The heart of the palace was the Harem, the women's quarters, ruled by the Valide, or Queen Mother. Here the Sultan took his ease surrounded by his wives and concubines with their guardian black eunuchs, amused by his favourite pages, dwarfs and mutes, his younger brothers either slaughtered upon his accession or confined to the prison of the Cage. Earlier sultans like Mehmet the Conqueror and Suleyman the Magnificent lied in Topkapi Sarayi only between their campaigns of conquest, but their weak and dissolute successors such as Selim the Sot and Ibrahim the Mad spent their reigns entirely in the Harem, where some of them died of over-indulgence or were brutally murdered. such were the private lives of the |Ottoman sultans in the pleasure dome known as the House of Felicity. Described here with attention to every extraordinary detail and wit, and illustrated throughout with images of this sequestered court, is the history and life of this remarkable palace in all its colour and opulence, and the story of its influence on a great empire.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD

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Book TitleInside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans of Istanbul

AuthorJohn Freely

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory

Publication Year2000

TypeTextbook

Number of Pages384 Pages

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Item Height198mm

Item Width135mm

Item Weight268g

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Title_AuthorJohn Freely

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by lobo_2215
18 Jun, 2020
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A very enjoyable read to learn about the ottoman sultans and their private lives
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