German/Turkish actress Meryem Uzerli is among the Arab world’s best-known young stars, thanks to hit Turkish soap “Magnificent Century,” in which she played Hurrem Sultan, a seductive former ...

Portrait of Suleyman I (1520-1566), 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Leemage/Corbis. It’s said that when Suleiman the Magnificent died on a Hungarian battlefield, his followers built a tomb on ...

Suleiman the Magnificent is often considered one of history's greatest rulers.He rose to the throne in 1520 at the tender age of 26 and quickly began a series of military campaigns, expanding ...

Henry VIII and Suleiman the Magnificent were contemporaries that had dramatically different approaches to succession management. In theory, an English king had one wife whose first-born son would ...

THE LION HOUSE: The Coming of a King. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 304 pages. $28.