The Book of the Sultan's Seal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of the Sultan's Seal write by Youssef Rakha. This book was released on 2015-03-06. The Book of the Sultan's Seal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A PROFOUNDLY ORIGINAL DEBUT FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED EGYPTIAN WRITER Youssef Rakha’s extraordinary The Book of the Sultan’s Seal was published less than two weeks after then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, following mass protests, in February 2011. It’s hard to imagine a debut novel of greater urgency or more thrilling innovation. Modeled on a medieval Arabic manuscript in the form of a letter addressed to the writer’s friend, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal is made up of nine chapters, each centered on a drive our hero, Mustafa Çorbaci, takes around greater Cairo in the spring of 2007. Together these create a portrait of Cairo, city of post-9/11 Islam. In a series of dreams and visions, Mustafa Çorbaci encounters the spirit of the last Ottoman sultan and embarks on a mission the sultan assigns him. Çorbaci’s trials shed light on the contemporary Arab Muslim’s desperation for a sense of identity: Sultan’s Seal is both a suspenseful, erotic, riotous novel and an examination of accounts of Muslim demise. The way to a renaissance, Çorbaci’s journeys lead us to see, may have less to do with dogma and jihad than with love poetry, calligraphy, and the cultural diversity and richness within Islam. With his first novel, Rakha has created a language truly all his own—an achievement that has earned international acclaim. This profoundly original work both retells canonical Arabic classics and offers a new version of “middle Arabic,” in which the formal meets the vernacular. Now finally in English, in Paul Starkey’s masterful translation, The Book of the Sultan’s Seal will astonish new readers around the world.
The Sultan's Seal
The Sultan's Seal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sultan's Seal write by Jenny White. This book was released on 2007. The Sultan's Seal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful blend of murder mystery and romance set in the Ottoman Court
The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels)
The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) write by Jenny White. This book was released on 2007-02-17. The Sultan's Seal: A Novel (Kamil Pasha Novels) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality." —Iain Pears Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul. Reading group guide included. Includes the first chapter of the next Kamil Pasha novel.
Turquoise Coast
Turquoise Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turquoise Coast write by Nevbahar Koç. This book was released on 2019-05-01. Turquoise Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Turkish Riviera, known as the Turquoise Coast, is home to stunning mountain scenery, rich myths, and folklore, and more than six hundred miles of impeccable shoreline along the warm Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Featuring two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos and the Temple of Artemis, this stretch of coast is a destination apart, so much so that Mark Antony was said to have chosen it as the most spectacular wedding gift for Cleopatra. Through the lens of Oliver Pilcher, this blue voyage beckons readers with wanderlust to set sail and enjoy the dazzling sapphire shades of the coast’s dreamy yacht life. Anecdotes from lovers of the region include Mica Ertegun, Tommy Hilfiger, Chiara Ferragni, and Mert Alas, who spent summers boating on these storied waters.
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.)
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.) write by Ismail Hakkı Kadı. This book was released on 2019-11-04. Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives, is a product of meticulous study of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, A.C.S. Peacock and other contributors on historical documents from the Ottoman archives. The work contains documents in Ottoman-Turkish, Malay, Arabic, French, English, Tausug, Burmese and Thai languages, each introduced by an expert in the language and history of the related country. The work contains documents hitherto unknown to historians as well as others that have been unearthed before but remained confined to the use of limited scholars who had access to the Ottoman archives. The resources published in this study show that the Ottoman Empire was an active actor within the context of Southeast Asian experience with Western colonialism. The fact that the extensive literature on this experience made limited use of Ottoman source materials indicates the crucial importance of this publication for future innovative research in the field. Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot
