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Ottoman sultan’s iconic portrait donated to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

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Daily News, 3 May, 2021 A rare 16th-century portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, has been donated to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality by an anonymous buyer after it fetched a hefty 350,000 British pounds ($481,000) of sale price in an auction in London last month. “Returning Home! The portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, which was sold at a record price in …

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‘Meşahirü’n-nisa’: Famous women in Islamic literature

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  By Nusrat Sidiq, Daily Sabah, 22, March 2021. Many female figures throughout Islamic history have been admired for their lives, knowledge and morals. A biographical work from Ottoman literature, ‘Meşahirü’n-nisa,’ illuminates the stories of 1,165 renowned figures among them International Women’s Day, marked on March 8, emerged in the early 1900s as part of …

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