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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans

Roger Allen

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2007
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Islam
ISBN:
9780742562165
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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.

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