Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the East by Harold Lamb
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Overview: Ruler of the world; Slave of a woman…
His name was Suleiman; enemies as well as friends called The Magnificent. Unlike others of his people, his eyes were gray. Perhaps that made him different from the start.
Suleiman was twenty-five when he was recalled to Constantinople at the death of his father, the Sultan. Accepting his responsibility with some misgivings, he ruled Turkey with a firm but fair hand. But to sixteenth century Europe, he was a pitiless and unrelenting conquerer, as bloodthirsty and ruthless as the age that bred him.
At the peak of his manhood, Suleiman’s cup was full. He rode unchallenged over half the world, and in his household waited gentle Gulbehar, his First Kadir, the favorite of his harem.
Suleiman paid little attention to the others in his harem– until he heard the strange, spirited singing of Khurrem, the newly-bought, Russian slave girl. Stubborn, brazen, impudent, the slight, fair-haired slave who never wept when she was beaten would have told anyone who asked that she would one day be First Kadir; that further, she would yet be the legal wife to the Sultan.
And so Suleiman, scourge of the world, listened to the singing of a slave, hated her even while he loved her, and was powerless to stay the sweep of her influence. Suleiman the Magnificent, the ruthless, the barbarous, had met his match…
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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