![]() ![]() Wanting to die in order to reunite with her dead family and former fiancé. In the beginning, Alexandra is inconsolable, and miserable in her fate. She bested many rivals who ever came close to Sultan Suleiman. Hürrem was possessive, brutal, territorial, and fierce. Although, eventually she came to truly love Suleiman. Hürrem was a young woman who seduced Sultan Suleiman in order to gain more power in the harem she was abducted into. In the 1520s Crimean Tartars captured her during one of their frequent raids into this region, took her as a slave (first selling her to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major center of the slave trade, then to Istanbul), and she and her friend from her village, Maria, were sent to Sultan Suleiman's harem. She was the daughter of an Orthodox priest, and her native language was Russian or Ruthenian. Starting with today's blog … I want to share some of the considerable work I have done to date on a truly great man - Suleyman the Magnificent.Alexandra was born in 1502 in Ruthenia. To understand Suleyman (Novem– September 5/6, 1566) – it is perhaps best to start with his mother. Suleyman’s mother, the Princess Hafsa, a Russian from Kiev, Instilled in her four-year-old child prodigy the following aphorism which he would repeat this frequently throughout his long and glorious reign, many years after his beloved mother ‘s death. TO KEEP AN ARMY, YOU MUST SHARE OUT PROPERTY. TO HAVE PROPERTY, YOU NEED PROSPEROUS PEOPLE. ONLY BY JUST LAWS CAN YOU DISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH. LAND, ARMY, PROPERTY, LAWS - IF ONE OF THESE LACKS, ALL FOUR WILL SOON LACK. Princess Hafsa chose her son’s tutors and preceptors with discernment. They were Muslim Arabs, from Arabia and Yemen, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Morocco, and Italian Christians from Venice. Suleyman became a scholar of the Qu’ran, chanting its enthralling classical Arabic - of the Torah, mastering it in Hebrew, and of the Bible, from the Latin Vulgate of Saint Jerome. His childhood mentors were men of exceptional learning:Ī. Khaled al Karash, would become a Sufi mystic. Mordekai, an exalted Jewish physician, often accompanied Suleyman on his military campaigns to oversee the health and hygiene of one hundred and fifty thousand men.ĭ. Prince Ludovico Gritti, natural son of the Doge of Venice, Andrea Gritti, had been his Christian preceptor. Suleyman would make him Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia and Hungary. Suleyman was a man of exceptional insight and was most beloved by the people he ruled. ![]() In his time he was regarded as the most significant ruler in the world at his time … and his impact has long been felt. ![]() The Ottoman's know him as Suleyman Kanuni (Lawgiver). The Europeans knew him as "Suleyman the Magnificent" a title they bestowed on him Interestingly – if you were to tour the US House of Representatives in the US Capitol Building – you would find a painting of Suleyman the Magnificent. To me he has been a lifelong inspiration. In all documents, he signed the following: Western historians know Suleyman primarily as a Conqueror, for he made Europe know fear, as it had never known of any Islamic State before or since. OF ARABS AND PERSIANS, CONQUEROR OF HUNGARY MY NAME IS READ IN ALL THE PRAYERS IN ALL THE CITIES OF ISLAM SULTAN OF SULTANS IN ALL THE LANDS SLAVE OF GOD, MASTER OF THE WORLD PROTECTOR OF MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. Suleyman was “the master of the lands of Caesar and Iskandar / Alexander the Great. ![]() He was simply called “Caesar” by his people. ![]()
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