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Author: Ruud Spruit Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 152
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In The Land of the Sultans the author narrates Malaysia's past, drawing not only from Western sources, but also from the colourful Sejarah Melayu - the famous Malay chronicles that are a mixture of classical romance and factual description. The result is a text which provides an accurate historical record, as well as an insight into the country's unique culture and customs.
Author: Ruud Spruit Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
In The Land of the Sultans the author narrates Malaysia's past, drawing not only from Western sources, but also from the colourful Sejarah Melayu - the famous Malay chronicles that are a mixture of classical romance and factual description. The result is a text which provides an accurate historical record, as well as an insight into the country's unique culture and customs.
Author: Warwick Ball Publisher: Olive Branch Press ISBN: 9781566568487 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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It has become conventional to think of the Turkish capture of Constantinople in 1453 as an Asiatic conquest. The Turks originated in Asia—it is true—but Constantinople was conquered from the west not the east: the Ottomans became a European power before they became a Middle Eastern one and remained a primarily European power. Indeed, the Middle East and even most of Anatolia itself was conquered from Europe. This demonstrates that it was no sudden rush of semi-civilized horse-riding nomads from the steppe, but the culmination of complex movements that had seen Turkish dynasties establish glittering monuments and cities throughout Asia. And when Turks first entered Anatolia in the 11th century, it was a Byzantine Emperor who made a relatively minor Turkish prince the first Sultan in the land that would come to be known as Turkey—a prince, furthermore, who called himself not Sultan of Turkey, but Sultan of Rome! Few people, therefore, combine so thoroughly the legacies of Europe and Asia, East and West, the civilizations of Greece and Rome with that of Islam, the Near East and beyond. Few have bridged so many civilizations; have brought so many cultural strands together. Their story is as much our history as well as theirs and others
Author: Alexandra Sellers Publisher: Silhouette ISBN: 9781459204348 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Sheikh Najib blasted into Rosalind Lewis's life and staked a sultan's claim on her son! Her denial of the boy's royal lineage was met with deaf ears-and relentless kisses. When danger threatened, mother and child were whisked into Najib's exotic world, a faraway place where protection meant marriage. But with every night in the arms of her sheikh "husband," Rosalind's secret threatened to surface. Would the truth bring a bitter end-or a heartfelt vow?
Author: Christiane Bird Publisher: Random House Incorporated ISBN: 0345469402 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.
Author: Gunja SenGupta Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520389158 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 377
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In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East" in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of US slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency.
Author: Mohibbul Hasan Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003830811 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 318
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Kashmir Under Sultans introduces the reader to a subject that begins with the foundation of the Sultanate and ends with the conquest of Kashmir by Akbar. During the Sultanate period, Kashmir had achieved a high standard of culture, but with the disappearance of her independence, her culture gradually declined. Poets, painters, and scholars had to leave the Valley and seek their livelihood elsewhere owing to the absence of local patronage. They then entered the service of the Mughal emperors and were added to the court, thereby lessening the cultural impoverishment of Kashmir. The book encloses political, social, economic and cultural activities that had a lasting influence on the Kashmir Valley in that period. It is of considerable value to social historians as Professor Mohibbul Hasan offers insights into political and cultural currents and crosscurrents in Kashmir. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author: Doç. Dr. Raşit GÜNDOĞDU Publisher: Rumuz Yayınları ISBN: 6055112159 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Ottomans, who patronaged the muslim and non-muslim nations from Indonesia to Spain, from the Crimea to Yemeni always pursued justice and brought it to the lands they conquered, as well as development and civilization without any language, religion and race discrimination. Only the Ottomans was bestowed with establishing a government ruled by 36 sultans, lasted for 622 years uninterrupted in the history of the world. The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, from Osman Ghazi to Vahdettin Khan who ascended the throne had done important works as much as possible to keep the state on its feet, for the public welfare and content. Today, as the archives are opened and new documents are emerged, many secrets about the sultans and their periods come out.
Author: Ruud Spruit
Author: Ruud Spruit
Author: Walter B. Harris
Author: Warwick Ball
Author: Alexandra Sellers
Author: Christiane Bird
Author: James MacLaren Cobban Cobban
Author: James Maclaren Cobban
Author: Gunja SenGupta
Author: Mohibbul Hasan
Author: Doç. Dr. Raşit GÜNDOĞDU