Peerless Among Princes - The Life and Times of Sultan Suleyman

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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Usage


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Family Story: The Ottomans before Süleyman


• Chapter 2: Childhood and Adolescence: Raising a Prince, 1494/5-1509


• Chapter 3: Apprenticeship: Service as District Governor, 1509-1520


• Chapter 4: Growth: The First Years on the Throne, 1520-1525


• Chapter 5: Partnership: Süleyman, :Ibrahim, and a New Imperial Vision, 1525-1533


• Chapter 6: Maturation: The Middle Years, 1533-1553


• Chapter 7: Old Age: The Final Years, 1553-1566


• Conclusion: Legacies


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Kaya Şahin is Associate Professor of History and the Executive Associate Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World.

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.

Additional text

This volume will serve as the standard English account of Süleyman's reign and the model for how to write a biography of a sultan.

Product details

• Authors: Kaya ¸Sahin, Kaya (Associate Professor of History and th Sahin, Kaya Şahin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9780197531631
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753163-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Middle Eastern history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600