Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather | Book review (Guardian Unlimited)
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Maya Jasanoff enjoys a sensitive history of the Levant Company To early English visitors, the grandeur of Constantinople’s setting alone, on the border of Europe and Asia, made the city seem “built to command all the world”. They marvelled at a skyline of cascading domes and pencil minarets, the fearsomely fortified city walls, and the majestic Topkapi Palace, home of the Ottoman sultan, one of …
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Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather | Book review (Guardian Unlimited)
