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The Silence Between the Sword and the Verse: The Hidden Grief of Selim the Grim, the Sultan Who Broke His Family to Save an Empire

The Silence Between the Sword and the Verse: The Hidden Grief of Selim the Grim, the Sultan Who Broke His Family to Save an Empire

Hikma, Narin

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Biographies GeneralReligious BiographiesTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

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ISBN13: 9798186982814
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the coldest man in history was also its most private poet?

There is a specific kind of loneliness that comes from doing what had to be done, and never once being permitted to say what it cost you. You know it if you've ever made the hard call at work that no one thanked you for. You know it if you've ever protected your family by becoming someone harder than you wanted to be.

Selim I - the Ottoman sultan history remembers as Selim the Grim - exiled his own father, ordered the deaths of both his brothers and their sons, and doubled his empire's size in eight brutal years. He was also, in secret, one of the finest Persian-language poets of his generation, writing under the pen name Selimi in a private chest of verse that no one but a single loyal scribe was ever permitted to read. This book opens that chest. It follows Selim from the earthquake that first cracked open his father's favoritism, through exile and rebellion, to the throne he won and the family he destroyed to keep it - and into the locked room where, every single night for four decades, he set down what the mask could never be allowed to show.

Recognize the exact shape of the guilt you carry over a necessary but ruthless choice

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