The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

The fascinating story of Queen Elizabethâ€™s secret alliance with the Ottoman sultan and outreach to the Muslim world by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps (published in the UK as This Orient Isle)

â€œA neglected aspect of Elizabethan history that Brotton brings vividly to life in this elegant and entertaining book.â€ â€”Jason Goodwin, The New York Times Book Review
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â€œBrotton is a gifted writer who presents this history as an exciting series of critical and suspense-filled encounters.â€ â€”The Washington Post
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â€œBrottonâ€™s wonderful book revealsâ€¦ how Muslims shaped English culture, consumerism and literature during the half millennium between the Crusades and the rise of the British Empire.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journal

We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence.

The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunesâ€”and reveals how Elizabethâ€™s fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by Englandâ€™s first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.
Country USA
Brand Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-09-20
EANs 9780525428824

Country	USA
Brand	Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-09-20
EANs	9780525428824

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

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