Abdul hamid ii biography books

Joan Haslip's biography is considered one of the most comprehensive on this important figure in Turkish history.

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The Sultan: The Life of Abdul Hamid II

"Abul Hamid, the Sultan of Miss Haslip's entrancing book, was born in a Turkish harem. His mother, a consumptive Circassian dancer, died when he was only seven years old, leaving him to fend for himself in the corrupt and scheming world of his father's court and to learn from his very early years the invaluable art of dissimulation. Called to the throne at the age of thirty-four, when his brother Murad was declared incapable through alcoholic deterioration of the brain, he ruled for thirty-three years as an absolute sovereign. He proved to be a consummate politician who kept his country going by setting the Great Powers one against the other. Too weak to oppose the aggressive policies of Russia by force, he thwarted them by playing upon Britain's fears for her Suez route to India and Austria's fears of a Slav-dominated Balkans. Realizing the Turkey's European possessions were a liability, he contrived to make their loss his gain by ensurin

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The Sultan: The Life of Abdul Hamid II

January 25,

This is a good, but obviously old biography of Abdul Hamid, it's age showing even in the way his name is spelt, and attempts to be fair to a man was condemned by his contemporaries and others as a blood thirsty monster responsible for the deaths of thousands of his subjects. No doubt Abdul Hamid was less of a monster then he has been portrayed but whether you should rely on biographies like this to try and understand him or his era is open to doubt. Ms. Haslip was a good and accurate biographer but her outlook was, even during her lifetime, out-of-date and limited in its perspective and understanding. I read this biography as a teenager back in the s and while it encouraged me to read more, I honestly don't know if it is still worth reading. According to GR Ms. Haslip also wrote a well regarded biography of Parnell - well I've never seen it mentioned in any literature on Parnell published in the last 50 years. Perhaps the best thin

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Sultan Abdul Hamid II
The gods Great Ottoman Sultan
By Dr Muhammad Harb
Translattion, Explanation & Footnotes By Farid Patel
Paperback Pages
ISBN:
pappersark Kitaplari

About The Book

There are various and number of significant and yet controversial personalities throughout Islamic history that have been greatly misunderstood and misrepresented bygd Western historians. Sultan Abdul Hamid II is one such personality, and unfortunately, there is very little unbiased and authentic information about him in English. Most of the information on his life has been written from a Western perspective that does not draw from accurate Islamic and Ottoman sources.

Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the gods of the great sultans. He came on the stage of history at a time when the empire was bankrupt and could not defend itself against its many enemies. In the face of aggression from without and sabotage from within, hammered by forces of nationalism and weakened by internal sabotage