A revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66), examining the life of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa.

Kaya Şahin's book offers a revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66). By examining the life and works of

Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as