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Author Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Title Peerless among Princes The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (385 p.)
Contents Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1. The Family Story: The Ottomans before Süleyman -- 2. Childhood and Adolescence: Raising a Prince, 1494/​5-​1509 -- 3. Apprenticeship: Service as District Governor, 1509-​20 -- 4. Ascent: The First Years on the Throne, 1520-​25 -- 5. Growth: A New Imperial Vision, 1525-​33 -- 6. Maturation: The Middle Years, 1533-53 -- 7. Old Age: The Final Years, 1553-​66 -- Conclusion: Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A full life and times biography of Sultan Süleyman, the sixteenth-century Sunni Muslim ruler of the multiethnic and multireligious Ottoman Empire that stretched from Hungary to Iran, and from the Crimea to north Africa and the Indian Ocean
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Kings and rulers.
Kings and rulers
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197531648
0197531644