TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muwayliḥī,Ibrāhīm
AU  - Allen,Roger
TI  - Spies, scandals, and sultans: Istanbul in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire : the first English translation of Egyptian Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi's Ma hanalik 
T2  - New Dialogues in Philosophy
SN  - 9781461643470
AV  - DR721 .M95513 2008eb
U1  - 949.61/8015 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Travel
KW  - fast
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - 1878-1909
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Istanbul
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A note on transliteration -- The later Ottoman sultans -- Introduction -- Concerning the circumstances of the Ottoman Sultanate -- Almabayn -- The chief secretary's department in Almabayn -- The Almabaynjiyya department in Almabayn -- The department of the chief eunuch in Almabayn -- The department of the Yavaran in Almabayn -- Spies -- Anniversary of the Sultan's accession -- Spies (II) -- Splendor of the caliphate and magnificence of the sultanate -- Appointment to Ottoman offices -- Court proceedings in Istanbul -- Shaykhs -- Writing ma hunalik -- The sultan -- Deposition of sultans
N2  - 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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