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Common terms and phrasesaccession Ahmed Akkoyunlu Alberi Anatolian aspers a day Bayezid brother Bursa campaign capital career ceremonial concubinage concubine court damad daughter death dynastic family dynasty's Edirne Efendi eldest elite endowment execution father favorite female grand vezir Hafsa haseki historian honor household Hurrem Ibrahim imperial harem imperial palace influence Islamic Istanbul Janissaries jariyes Khatun Kosem Sultan late sixteenth letter Mahmud male Mamluk Manisa marriage married Mehmed III Mehmed IV Mehmed Pasha Mehmed's Mihrimah military mosque complex mufti Murad Murad III Murad IV Muslim Mustafa Naima Ne§ri Nurbanu Old Palace Orhan Osman Ottoman dynasty Ottoman Empire Ottoman sultan Pecevi period political prince's princes princesses principal reign Relazioni religious role royal family royal women ruler Safavid Safiye Selaniki Selim seventeenth century sexual Siileyman sixteenth century slave sons sovereign sovereignty status stipend succession Suleyman Tarih throne tion tomb tradition TSMA Turhan Sultan Turkish ulema valide sultan Venetian ambassador wife Popular passagesPage 114 - em. They never fail giving you an Account of the Women, which 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the Genius of the Men, into whose Company they are never admitted. Page 114 - They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company they are never admitted... Page 62 - Roxalana and the Court attended a great tournament in which both Christian and Moslem Knights were engaged, and tumblers and jugglers and a procession of wild beasts, and giraffes with necks so long they as it were touched the sky. Page 114 - ... anything exactly of their own knowledge. The Turks are too proud to converse familiarly with merchants, who can only pick up some confused informations, which are generally false ; and can give no better account of the ways here than a French refugee, lodging in a garret in... Page 121 - Directly after these poor princes, who people say possessed great beauty, had been buried, the populace waited at the gate to witness the departure from the Seraglio of their mothers and all the other wives of the king, with their children and their goods. All the carriages, coaches, mules, and horses of the court were employed for the purpose. Besides the wives of the king and the 27 daughters, there were 200 others, consisting of nurses and slaves and they were taken to the Eschi Seraglio... Page 61 - This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one absolutely unprecedented in the history of the sultans. The Grand... Page 4 - ... is a space to which general access is forbidden or controlled and in which the presence of certain individuals or certain modes of behavior are forbidden. That the private quarters in a domestic residence and by extension its female residents are also referred to as a "harem" comes from the 1slamic practice of restricting access to these quarters. Page 103 - Serraglio he went to look on his father's corpse; then his nineteen brothers were brought before him, one by one. They say that the eldest, a most beautiful lad and of excellent parts, beloved by all, when he kissed the Sultan's hand exclaimed, •' My lord and brother, now to me as my father, let not my days be ended thus in this my tender age " ; the Sultan tore his beard with every sign of grief, but answered never a word. Page 333 - a jewel of her majesties picture, set with some rubies and diamants, 3 great pieces of gilt plate, 1o garments of cloth of gold, a very fine case of glass bottles silver and gilt, with 2 pieces of fine Holland'. Page 173 - It is absolutely necessary that on two days in the week the king should sit for the redress of wrongs, to extract recompense from the oppressor, to give justice and to listen to the words of his subjects with his own ears, without any intermediary. References to this bookFrom other books
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