Table 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 ,Sahin 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.

Reviews

Süleyman I has long been considered the epitome of Ottoman sultans, but the man behind the official persona remains elusive. Kaya Şahin is already author of standout studies of this reign and in this new work skillfully mines contemporary sources to reveal the joys and tribulations of a life increasingly shaped by the anxieties associated with the impending Islamic millennium. From his difficult youth to sickly old age, Süleyman's life story is here reappraised in a dynamic and intimate narrative that will have wide appeal.
*Caroline Finkel, author of Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire*

One of history's most fascinating leaders, known in Europe as 'the Great Turk,' comes vividly alive in this captivating book. Combining deep research with a light writing style, it tells not just the story of a sultan but of an epoch. Learning about Süleyman's multi-talented wife, who rose from slavery to become arguably the most powerful woman in the world, is an added bonus.
*Stephen Kinzer, author of Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds*

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.
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