Suleiman the Magnificent and Ottoman Decline
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent was the high point of the Ottoman Empire, but for centuries, it has also been pegged as the beginning of the empire's long, slow decline into irrelevance. Is this true? Was Suleiman's reign simultaneously the best of times and the beginning of the end?
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| 0:07.0 | The flap of the red tent opened. |
| 0:19.2 | A man stepped through, his neatly trimmed beard framing a handsome face shadowed by a large |
| 0:24.3 | white turban. |
| 0:25.9 | He was approaching middle age, fit and strong, and he owned an air of command, born of many |
| 0:31.3 | years spent issuing orders and seeing them obeyed. |
| 0:35.5 | His sparkling eyes radiated charisma, but despite his obvious competence, his air of well-earned |
| 0:41.6 | superiority, a bit of fear showed on that well-made face. |
| 0:46.8 | The man's name was Shixade Mustafa, Prince Mustafa, the son and most likely successor |
| 0:52.1 | of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. |
| 0:55.4 | Mustafa had come here to the valley of Ereggli in Central Anatolia to meet his father on September |
| 1:01.2 | 21st, 1553. |
| 1:04.1 | But as he entered the tent, full of confidence and just a touch of apprehension, Mustafa |
| 1:09.1 | knew something was a miss. |
| 1:11.6 | He didn't see his father, the aging Sultan and his enormous white turban. |
| 1:16.4 | Instead, a curtain locked off much of the tent's interior. |
| 1:21.1 | Three men were waiting for him, mute, strongly built figures. |
| 1:26.1 | One of them carried a bowstring in his gnarled, powerful hands. |
| 1:30.5 | Mustafa knew immediately why they were here and what the bowstring was for. |
| 1:35.9 | His father intended this meeting to be his son's end. |
| 1:41.6 | The three mutes, the Sultan's favored executioners, wordlessly threw themselves at Mustafa, |
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