Middle Eastern History
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From Beirut To Jerusalem
by Thomas L Friedman
The New York Times Middle East correspondent profiles this troubled region, describing the everyday horrors of Beirut, the intricacies of Arab politics, Arab-Israeli relations, and American perceptions of the region.
Peace To End All Peace
by David Fromkin
Featuring a new afterword offering an updated assessment of the region, a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed study of the Middle East traces the influence of the Allies on Middle East politics during and after World War I and the legacy of the era on the shifting political unities and divisions of today.
Leap Of Faith
by Queen Noor
rt of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan....
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The Burning Tigris
by Peter Balakian
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response presents a narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the responsibility of the Ottoman government. Using archival documents and first-person accounts, Peter Balakian shows the history of how the Young Turks were involved in the Armenian Genocide. The book received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times and national best seller.
Bible and Sword
by Barbara W Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August—a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
Six Days Of War
by Michael B Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-Israeli historian Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Widely praised by critics, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
What Went Wrong? - Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
by Bernard Lewis
For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in...
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Power, Faith and Fantasy
by Michael B Oren
Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index.
Islamic Imperialism
by Efraim Karsh
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous...
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The Punishment Of Virtue
by Sarah Chayes
As a former star reporter for NPR, Sarah Chayes developed a devoted listenership for her on-site reports on conflicts around the world. In The Punishment of Virtue, she reveals the misguided U.S. policy in Afghanistan in the wake of the defeat of the Taliban, which has severely undermined the effort to build democracy and allowed corrupt tribal warlords back into positions of power and the Taliban to re-infiltrate the country. This is an eyeopening chronicle that highlights the often infuriating...
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A Savage War Of Peace
by Alistair Horne
ALISTAIR HORNE is the author of eighteen previous books, including A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954—1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805—1815 and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. He was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur in 1993 and received a knighthood in 2003 for his work on French history.
The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
The Great War For Civilisation
by Robert Fisk
Best-selling author and journalist Robert Fisk, based in Beirut as Middle East Correspondent of The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. His last book, Pity the Nation, a history of the Lebanon war, was published to great critical acclaim.
Lords Of the Horizons
by Jason Goodwin
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling history; dramatic, detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.
A History Of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of...
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From Babel To Dragomans
by Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun), and as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" (New York Times), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the general public have all turned to for insight into the Middle East....
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Middle Eastern History Books & Ephemera
A History Of Islamic Societies
by Lapidus, Ira M
An accessible worldwide history of Muslim societies provides updated coverage of each country and region, in a volume that discusses their origins and evolution while offering insight into historical processes that shaped contemporary Islam and surveying its growing influence.
Arab and Jew
by Shipler, David K
Rhidian Brook was born in Tenby, South Wales. The Testimony of Taliesin Jones received the Somerset Maugham and Betty Task Awards and was short-listed for the Welsh Novel of the Year. He is also the author of the novel Jesus and The Adman.
The Palestinians in Perspective: Implications for Mideast Peace and U. S. Policy
by Gruen, George E. (editor)
NY: Insitute of Human Relations Press and the American Jewish Committee. Very Good; Covers lightly worn and sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0874950422 . Map. A collection of articles about Palestinian grievances in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 109 pages .
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Sultan Abdulaziz’e Darbe: Yildiz Mahkemesi - Mithat Pasa’nin Idami
by Ibrahim Cicek
Istanbul: Alfa Yayinlari, 2022. New. Paperback. 13x19 cm. In Turkish. 536 p. Sultan Abdülaziz'e nasıl darbe yapıldı? Sultan Abdülaziz intihar mı etti, yoksa öldürüldü mü? Çerkez Hasan darbeci paşalara nasıl suikast düzenledi? Sultan V. Murat, 93 gün sonra neden tahtan indirildi? Mithat Paşa, Yıldız Mahkemesi'nde Sultan Abdülaziz'i darbeyle devirdikten sonra öldürmekle nasıl suçlandı? Mithat Paşa ile bu cinayet arasında nasıl bir bağlantı kuruldu? Yıldız Muhakemesi hukuki...
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Tebrikname-i Milli: Sultan II.Abdülhamid'in 25. Culus Yıldonumu. (Sultan Abdülhamid Han'in Olumunun 100. Yili Anisina).
by Ed.: Burhan Sayılır
İstanbul: Üsküdar Belediyesi, 2017. Very Good. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 25x34 cm. In Turkish and Ottoman Turkish facsimile. 315 p., b/w and colour ills. >In publisher's special slipcase. Slipcase very good with light wear along the edges and corners. Minor wear on the dust jacket. Text is 'new'. Sultan II. Abdulhamid's expenditures on his personal budget from September 1, 1876 to September 1, 1900 were published in book form by Tahir Bey, monuments which were restored, the state policies and activities...
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Istanbul'da Uc Yil - 1. Cilt Turklerin Orf ve Adetleri 1841 - 1844
by Charles White
Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi. 2023. New. Paperback. 15x22 cm. In Turkish. 248 p. Charles White (1793-1861) Eton Koleji'nden 1805'te mezun olduktan sonra orduya katıldı. 1830-31 arasında Belçika kralının seçimi konusunda Britanya'yı temsil eden Lord Ponsoby'nin sekreterliğini yaptı. Lord Ponsoby'nin 1832'de Britanya'nın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu elçiliğine atanması White'ın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve İstanbul'a ilgi duymasına neden oldu. Ponsoby'nin elçiliğinin son yılı olan 1841'de...
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Yemen and Asır: Essays on Southwest Arabia Under the Ottomans. The Idrisi and the Imams (18th - 20th Centuries)
by John BALDRY
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2016. Paperback. New. 17x25 cm. In English. 662 p. "The early history of the Yemeni port of al-Hudaydah" Arabian Studies VII: 37-51. "The English East India Company's settlement at al-Mukha, 1719-1739", The Arab Gulf, Vol 13, No 2: 13-38. "The Yamani Island of Kamaran during the Napoleonic wars", Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 16, no 3: 246-266. "Foreign interventions and occupations of Kamaran Island", Arabian Studies, IV: 89-111. "Al-Yaman and the Turkish occupation, 1849-1914,"...
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Des Ottomans Aux Turcs: Naissance d'une Nation.
by FRANÇOIS GEORGEON
Istanbul: Les Editions Isis, 1995. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In French. [viii], 488 p. Des Ottomans aux Turcs: Naissance d'une Nation.
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The Secret Reports of the Hungarian Arminius Vambery to the British Foreign Office on Sultan Abdulhamid II and His Reign (1889-1909)
by Edited by SINAN KUNERALP
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2013. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In English. 272 p. The secret reports of the Hungarian Arminius Vambery to the British Foreign Office on Sultan Abdulhamid II and his reign, (1889-1909). Preface, Introduction, Chronological List of Reports Documents, Appendices, Index. OTTOMANIA Hungarian - Turkish international relations Ottoman politic history Vambery, (1832-1913) Ottoman Palace British secret reports.
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Babylon Electrified
by A. Bleunard
You get one antique Babylon Electrified: The History of an Expedition Undertaken to Restore Ancient Babylon By the Power of Electricity and How it Resulted hardcover by A. Bleunard and published by Gebbie & Co., Publishers in Philadelphia in 1889. It is illustrated by Montader and is in English. It measures approximately 9.5 inches long by 7 inches wide. The book is in good condition. The binding is tight and the book is complete with no loose pages. The covers and edges do have some wear. The pages do...
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Jews in the Economic Life of Constantinople and Smyrna in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1700-1820)
by Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky
İstanbul: Libra Kitap, 2022. New. Paperback. 14x21 cm. In English. 388 p. The book consists of ten chapters that are based mainly on new sources. The chapters discuss the economic activities of Jews and non-Jews in Constantinople and Smyrna during the long eighteenth century (1700-1820). The chapters also contain information relating to Salonica. The primary material for the volume was the Levant Company's official correspondence exchanged between its administration and employees, political authorities...
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Farewell to Ottoman Salonica
by Leon SCIAKY
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2000. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 292 p.
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Abdülhamid II and His Legacy - Studies in Honour of F. A. K. Yasamee
by Edited by Tufan BUZPINAR, Gökhan ÇETİNSAYA
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2019. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 288 p. Preface 1. Feroze A. K. Yasamee, Spying on the Sultan: A Further Note2. Keith Wilson, 'Remember That You Are Dealing with an Eastern People. They Understand Nothing but Force.' Imperial Germany, Great Britain and the Coercion of Abdul Hamid II (July-December 1895)3. Gökhan Çetinsaya, Sultan Abdülhamid II's Domestic Policy: An Attempt at Periodization 4. Gül Tokay, The Ottoman Army during the Hamidian Period: An Assessment...
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The Detailed Annual Revenue Register of the Ottoman Empire H. 1076 (1665 - 66) - Cizye, Avarız, Ocaklık, Adet-i Ağnam, Gümrük, Tuzla and Mukataa
by Edited by Mehmet DEMİRYÜREK
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2020. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 116 p. Foreword PART ONE INTRODUCTION Sheep Tax Levied on the Camels Duty of the State: Balance and Legitimacy Methodology The Importance of this Detailed Register An Undated Detailed Annual Revenue Register of the Ottoman Empire PART TWO DEVLET-İ ALİYYE'NİN MUFASSAL İRÂD DEFTERİ - The Annual Revenue of the Ottoman Central Treasury 1.Tabʻi Kalem-i Muhasebe-i Evvel 2. Tabʻi Kalem-i Muhasebe-i Cizye 3. Tabʻi Kalem-i Muhasebe-i...
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![From Empire to Republic. The Turkish War of National Liberation 1918-1923. A Documentary Study Volume I-II-III/1-III/2-IV-V [5 Volumes Set].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/051/1590051720.0.b.jpg)
From Empire to Republic. The Turkish War of National Liberation 1918-1923. A Documentary Study Volume I-II-III/1-III/2-IV-V [5 Volumes Set].
by Stanford J. SHAW
Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2000. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In English. (5 volumes set): 2434 p. From Empire to Republic. The Turkish War of National Liberation 1918-1923. A Documentary Study Volume I-II-III/1-III/2-IV-V [5 Volumes Set].
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Osmanli Saray Teskilatinda Has Oda
by Sevgi Agca Diker
Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi. 2021. New. Paperback. 15x22 cm. In Turkish. 501 p. Osmanlı Devleti'nde, mülki ve askeri sınıflarda görev yapacak iyi eğitilmiş, padişaha sıkı sıkıya bağlı ve seçkin bir kadro oluşturabilmek için gayrimüslim çocukların devşirilmesi yolu tercih edilmişti. Bu oğlanlar Edirne Sarayı, Galata Sarayı, İbrahim Paşa Sarayı gibi hazırlık okullarından sonra Topkapı Sarayı'na gelmekteydi. Enderuna bu şekilde katılan içoğlanların ulaşmayı...
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![II.Abdulhamid'in Ilk Mabeyn Feriki Eginli Said Pasa'nın Hatirati 1876- 1887 [6 VOLS.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/602/074/1538074602.0.b.jpg)
II.Abdulhamid'in Ilk Mabeyn Feriki Eginli Said Pasa'nın Hatirati 1876- 1887 [6 VOLS.]
by Davut Erkan
Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 2022. Paperback. New. 16x24. In Turkish. 1454 p.
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Ottoman History Through the Eyes of Asikpasazade
by Lale Özdemir
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2013. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 181 p. Acknowledgements Note on transcription Introduction 1. Aşıkpaşazade from a modern perspective Sources and textual tradi-tions of fifteenth-century Ottoman Historiography The approach of modern scholarship to the development of Ottoman Historiography A chronological portrayal of Aşıkpaşazade in secondary literature 2. The historiographical issues surrounding the use of Aşıkpaşazade as a source Portrayal of...
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Cultures Musulmanes Balkaniques.
by ALEXANDRE POPOVIC
Istanbul: Les Editions Isis, 1994. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In French. [viii], 282 p. Cultures Musulmanes Balkaniques.
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![Osmanlı Doneminde Mucevher ve Ermeni Kuyumcular. = [i.e. Jewelry and Armenian Jewelers During the Ottoman Period]. [2 Volumes Set].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/775/233/1583233775.0.b.jpg)
Osmanlı Doneminde Mucevher ve Ermeni Kuyumcular. = [i.e. Jewelry and Armenian Jewelers During the Ottoman Period]. [2 Volumes Set].
by Arsen Yarman
Istanbul: Yapi Kredi, 2022. New. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 25x35 cm. In Turkish. (2 volumes set): [10], xii, 688 p.; [6], 714 p., b/w and colour ills. In publisher's special slipcase. Çağlar boyunca ihtişamın ve zenginliğin sembolü olarak görülen mücevherlerin tarihin ve somut insan emeğinin bir ürünü olduğunu düşünmek kolay değil. Oysa tozun, toprağın içinden çıkarak usta ellerde mücevhere dönüşen değerli cevherler, bir saraya ya da malikâneye ulaşana dek pek çok insanın...
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![Teskilat-i Mahsusa Tarihi - Umur Sarkiyye Dairesi [1914-1919 / 1917 / 1918 ] - [3 VOLS.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/840/475/1539475840.0.b.jpg)
Teskilat-i Mahsusa Tarihi - Umur Sarkiyye Dairesi [1914-1919 / 1917 / 1918 ] - [3 VOLS.]
by Ahmet Tetik
Istanbul: Turkiye Is Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2021. Paperback. New. 16x24 cm. In Turkish. 1399 p. Cihan Harbi'nin son yılında, dönemin askeri ve sivil idarecileri, "tutunma kuvvetini" güçlü kılmak için gayret gösterirler. Çok milletli Osmanlı Devleti'ne yönelik olarak, harici hasımlar ile yerli işbirlikçilerinin harp öncesindeki gibi, "tutunma kuvvetini" zayıflatıp yok etme taarruzları, şimdi daha da şiddetlenmiştir. "Umûr-ı Şarkıyye Dairesi" idareci ve mensupları, bu...
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The Armenian Question
by Mim Kemal Öke
Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 2001. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 297 p. I.The Area of International Relations: Problems of Terminology and Mode of Approach II. The Theory of Political Realism. III. The Moralist School and its Critique. IV. The Balance of Power System. V. An Example of Transnational Powers and of Their Influence in the International Political System; the Armenian Question.
CHAPTER ONE: The International Environment in which the Armenian Question Arose
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![The Gift to the Great Ones on Naval Campaigns (Tuhfetu'l-Kibar Fi Esfari'l-Bihar). [With a CD].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/977/1581977920.0.b.jpg)
The Gift to the Great Ones on Naval Campaigns (Tuhfetu'l-Kibar Fi Esfari'l-Bihar). [With a CD].
by KATIB ÇELEBI (Haci Khalfa), (1609-1657)
Ankara: Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs, 2008. As New. Hardcover. 24x32 cm. In English. 463, [1] p.; colour ills. Original bdg. Dust jacket. Facsimile. First edition. "It's a cost a joy of that the interest shown to the history and culture of sea has increased recently. If the sciencetific level of this interest is maintained, then how the Turks managed the seas in the best way will be understood better because each state grows to the extent of its interest in the seas and its power in the seas,...
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![Recueil des Traites, Conventions, Protocoles, Arrangements et Ceclarations Signes Entre l'Empire Ottoman et les Puissances Etrangeres Vol.I-II [2 VOLUMES SET]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/035/027/1559027035.0.b.jpg)
Recueil des Traites, Conventions, Protocoles, Arrangements et Ceclarations Signes Entre l'Empire Ottoman et les Puissances Etrangeres Vol.I-II [2 VOLUMES SET]
by Sinan KUNERALP
Istanbul: Les Editions Isis, 2000. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In French. 2 volumes set: 328 p., 320 p. Recueil des Traites, Conventions, Protocoles, Arrangements et Ceclarations Signes Entre l'Empire Ottoman et les Puissances Etrangeres Vol.I-II [2 VOLUMES SET].
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La Turquie d'Asie - Tome 1: L'Anatolie Orientale: Trebizonde, Erzeroum, Bitlis, Van, Diarbekir.
by Vital Cuinet
Istanbul: Les Editions Isis, 2001. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In French. 428 p. La Turquie d'Asie - Tome 1: L'Anatolie Orientale: Trebizonde, Erzeroum, Bitlis, Van, Diarbekir.
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£30.08
Ayasofya
by Sedat Bornovali
Istanbul: Timas Yayinlari. 2022. New. Paperback. 13x21 cm. In Turkish. 240 p. Ayasofya; ilk günkü gibi renkli ve İstanbullu, hem herkese ait hem hiç kimsenin… 1500 yıllık mabet; mozaiklerden mihraba, Bizans İmparatoru Ioustinianos'tan Fatih Sultan Mehmed'e, hünkâr mahfilinden Hz. İsa'ya Yakarış/Şefaat sahnesine, Venedikli Henricus Dandolo'dan Osmanlı'nın hattatlarına ve I. Mahmud Kütüphanesi'ne, beş Padişahın türbelerine değin birçok ismin, hayatın ve olayın hâlâ...
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