The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor Süleiman the Magnificent. A tughra generally includes the name of the sultan and his father along with the phrase "the eternally victorious." ...

“The Lion House,” Christopher de Bellaigue’s novelistic account of the 16th-century Ottoman sultanate ... diplomacy, clothing, avarice, war, statecraft and the exceptional brutality of ...

The story's (fictional) protagonist, Jahan, is apprenticed to the great (and historical) Mimar Sinan, a prolific 16th-century architect and builder under Suleiman the Magnificent and two of his ...