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Spies, scandals, and sultans : Istanbul in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire : the first English translation of Egyptian Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi's Ma hanalik /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muwayliḥī, Ibrāhīm, -1906
Otros Autores: Allen, Roger, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Colección:New dialogues in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A note on transliteration
  • The later Ottoman sultans
  • Introduction
  • Concerning the circumstances of the Ottoman Sultanate
  • Almabayn
  • The chief secretary's department in Almabayn
  • The Almabaynjiyya department in Almabayn
  • The department of the chief eunuch in Almabayn
  • The department of the Yavaran in Almabayn
  • Spies
  • Anniversary of the Sultan's accession
  • Spies (II)
  • Splendor of the caliphate and magnificence of the sultanate
  • Appointment to Ottoman offices
  • Court proceedings in Istanbul
  • Shaykhs
  • Writing ma hunalik
  • The sultan
  • Deposition of sultans.