Suleiman the Magnificent – Sultan of the East by Harold Lamb (PDF)

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⭐I read several of Lamb’s histories sixty years ago as a young reader, and glad of it. I have had at least a single image in my mind of Tamerlane, Babur the Tiger and other conquerors. It served me well when coming across the occasional mention of these fellows. At least I knew something about them.”Suleiman” comes at us from the 1940s and with a point of view that reflects the Ottoman perspective, And Lamb tells us that. So when we come across favorable mentions of someone like Barbarossa, the murdering slave taker, we can accept that the Ottoman’s would see him in a favorable light. Or when Lamb refers to Suleiman as ‘magnanimous’ when he neglects to massacre his captives. Ok, we got fair warning. It serves the reader to understand the un-familiar perspective.The e-book version I bought was stuffed with typos. That Lamb did not warn us about. It put me off to be reading along, engaged in the narrative, only to have the rhythm disrupted by some stupid typo. Over and over.For that reason, I can give only three stars. Still valuable, still interesting, but flawed.

⭐We were so looking forward to reading this book but the poor formatting of the Kindle is impossible and we gave up. Whoever did the processing clearly has not done their job. Please read a Kindle sample before you buy any of these.

⭐I had read this book about 60 years ago but did not remember anything. I went through a phase of buying and reading several Harold Lamb biographies of ancient leaders in affordable paperbacks. My interest was rekindled recently after watching the Turkish TV series on Streaming Netflix.(48 chapters). The sereis is interesting in that it displayed how the Turks look back at their golden age and the nation’s impact on the outside world.

⭐I came here for this book after watching a documentary on Amazon about the harem of Suleiman, and then the first 48 episodes of The Magnificent Century series on Netflix. When I couldn’t find more episodes for the series, I looked for biographies on Suleiman. This one is excellent. The interplay of Suleiman’s personal and political life is just riveting.

⭐Excellently done! I would like to selectively reread.

⭐An acquaintance told me recently, that when an antagonistic Christian west that verges out of the dark age, refer to a Turkish Sultan as ‘Magnificent’, there must really have been something truly remarkable which they had beheld.To the gentle historian, reading about the Osmanlis from western scholars can often be a bore, who take great pleasure in enriching barbarity, obscuring realities of personas and a general reluctance to humanise their subjects. Similar can be said of the other ‘barbaric tribe’ across the Black sea, namely the Muscovites and Russia as a whole.I wish I had the opportunity to meet this late humble author who, through his mastery of storytelling, manages to tell such a tremendous chapter of the convoluted yet beautiful life of Suleiman the Magnificent; who glorified through the Mediterranean, Hungary, Persia, Africa and the steppes of Russia, whilst battling with political problems abroad and indeed in his very home.Harold Lamb contextualises wonderfully over those aspects which are troublesome to modern pop-historians, who see fratricide, slavery, harems and eunuchs as exotic fantasies, along with their instigators, western orientalists. When in truth, these strange ideals were a respectable cog of the mechanism of the time. Where the son of the Ottoman sultan would be inflicted with the law (the ‘Kanun’) more than the pauper in the bazaar.As a speaker of many languages, including Arabic, the author uses an array of sources to produce this historical, and accurate novel. His interpretation of Roxelana and the rule of women can be found in differently told versions, in other sources, but it is certainly not incorrect.Sometimes, history is learned reverse-chronologically, as the most enticing parts can be found in the beginning or the end. This is a credible and beautiful start for anyone who wishes to learn about the last great Sultan of the Ottoman empire – the real remenanant of a Muslim empire which fizzled into chaos in the rule of women and eunuchs. It subtly connects the histories of Barbarossa and Dragut (whom the author touches upon greatly and defends).

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