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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire

By Roger Allen

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9781461643470, 1461643473
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1017 kB (1041421 bytes)
Series
New Dialogues in Philosophy
Pages
158\158
Time added
2018-03-09 21:57:53

Description

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since 1896. The text of the Arabic original is prefaced with an extensive introduction in which the author's life is discussed and the highly controversial contents of the book are contextualized and evaluated for their accuracy against other contemporary accounts of life in the Ottoman capital.  Read more...

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