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Subjects of the Sultan : culture and daily life in the Ottoman Empire

Suraiya Faroqhi (Author)
The cultural heritage of the Ottoman Empire has traditionally been presented to us through its monuments - mosques, mausoleums, palaces, baths - and its high arts, such as court painting and calligraphy. Our understanding of Ottoman culture has thus come from a world created by and for sultans, viziers and the elite of the Empire

Print Book, English, 2005
I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2005