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Ibrahim: Part II: From heaven to hell (The Magnificent Era Book 3)

Ibrahim: Part II: From heaven to hell (The Magnificent Era Book 3)

Panagiotis Sparis
4.6/5 ( ratings)
This particular volume is freely based on the historical evidence related to the acts and days of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pargali during the final period of his illustrious career, after he became “Serasker”, i.e. Field Marshal, participated actively in the historic Ottoman victory against the Hungarian Kingdom at Mohacs in 1526, the first conquest of Budapest, and the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529, with his friend and Sultan Suleiman Khan. His military exploits were later continued as he occupied Tabriz while Suleiman remained in Constantinople because of an illness, and later conquered Baghdad in 1534 along with the Sultan who had by then recovered. However, on their return to Constantinople, something unexpected happened that led to Ibrahim's execution during the night of 15/3/1536 according to the existing historical sources.
What was the reason for this execution has not yet been resolved and the only reliable source of the events, besides unconfirmed rumors, is an Ottoman miniature that depicts Ibrahim’s coffin being transported from the Seraglio to the shore by Janissary guards. Where Ibrahim was buried is open to wild speculation that was recently further enhanced as an old tomb was supposedly identified on the European shores of the Bosporus Straights.
The most common and digestible excuse offered for Ibrahim’s execution, namely that he signed a peace treaty using the title “Sultan” Ibrahim under his signature, makes no sense too unless Sultan Suleiman was a mentally disturbed personality, insanely fearful of traitors, usurpers and conspirators. Of course, this explanation may be consistent with Suleiman’s later murderous decisions to execute two of his sons, the most able ones. However, executing an intimate friend or your male children is a most violent choice that demands many more reasons than the remote possibility of treasonous behavior that was never proved or even hinted.
Even more dubious is the accusation that Ibrahim was executed because he had supposedly an intimate relationship with a female servant slave. During his era, four legal wives were allowed and dozens of concubines, residing inside the mansion of every affluent Ottoman
When there is no concrete historical evidence, the authors' imagination is free to roam. However, even rampant imagination has to obey human logic and no history editing and beautifying can be expected to be convincing unless it satisfies certain principals generally accepted as valid; for instance "an eye for an eye", or "motherly love", "for god and country". Therefore, the general dismissal of the entire Osmanli dynasty as comprised by sexually degenerate sovereigns is another apparent travesty that unjustly dismisses for political reasons the contributions of many brilliant soldiers and capable administrators, like Murat II, Mehmet the Conqueror, Selim the Grim, and Suleiman the Magnificent, Murat IV, or Mahmud II that turned for few centuries an aging Eastern Roman Empire shrank within the walls of a single city into the most powerful empire in the world since the demise of Tamerlane’s realm.
Today, the mighty Ottoman Empire of Mehmet Fatih, Selim the Grim, Suleiman the Magnificent, exists no more. It died almost a century ago replaced by democracy. If this is because one or more of these capable founders failed to put the correct foundations or if their descendants failed to do a comparably efficient maintenance is still a highly debatable issue the author does not feel qualified enough to analyze. For him a much more important issue than why an empire weakened and died is how the people that created it lived, what were their aspirations, what did they accomplished when they prospered, and what kind of legacy they left behind.
Language
English
Pages
933
Format
Kindle Edition

Ibrahim: Part II: From heaven to hell (The Magnificent Era Book 3)

Panagiotis Sparis
4.6/5 ( ratings)
This particular volume is freely based on the historical evidence related to the acts and days of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pargali during the final period of his illustrious career, after he became “Serasker”, i.e. Field Marshal, participated actively in the historic Ottoman victory against the Hungarian Kingdom at Mohacs in 1526, the first conquest of Budapest, and the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529, with his friend and Sultan Suleiman Khan. His military exploits were later continued as he occupied Tabriz while Suleiman remained in Constantinople because of an illness, and later conquered Baghdad in 1534 along with the Sultan who had by then recovered. However, on their return to Constantinople, something unexpected happened that led to Ibrahim's execution during the night of 15/3/1536 according to the existing historical sources.
What was the reason for this execution has not yet been resolved and the only reliable source of the events, besides unconfirmed rumors, is an Ottoman miniature that depicts Ibrahim’s coffin being transported from the Seraglio to the shore by Janissary guards. Where Ibrahim was buried is open to wild speculation that was recently further enhanced as an old tomb was supposedly identified on the European shores of the Bosporus Straights.
The most common and digestible excuse offered for Ibrahim’s execution, namely that he signed a peace treaty using the title “Sultan” Ibrahim under his signature, makes no sense too unless Sultan Suleiman was a mentally disturbed personality, insanely fearful of traitors, usurpers and conspirators. Of course, this explanation may be consistent with Suleiman’s later murderous decisions to execute two of his sons, the most able ones. However, executing an intimate friend or your male children is a most violent choice that demands many more reasons than the remote possibility of treasonous behavior that was never proved or even hinted.
Even more dubious is the accusation that Ibrahim was executed because he had supposedly an intimate relationship with a female servant slave. During his era, four legal wives were allowed and dozens of concubines, residing inside the mansion of every affluent Ottoman
When there is no concrete historical evidence, the authors' imagination is free to roam. However, even rampant imagination has to obey human logic and no history editing and beautifying can be expected to be convincing unless it satisfies certain principals generally accepted as valid; for instance "an eye for an eye", or "motherly love", "for god and country". Therefore, the general dismissal of the entire Osmanli dynasty as comprised by sexually degenerate sovereigns is another apparent travesty that unjustly dismisses for political reasons the contributions of many brilliant soldiers and capable administrators, like Murat II, Mehmet the Conqueror, Selim the Grim, and Suleiman the Magnificent, Murat IV, or Mahmud II that turned for few centuries an aging Eastern Roman Empire shrank within the walls of a single city into the most powerful empire in the world since the demise of Tamerlane’s realm.
Today, the mighty Ottoman Empire of Mehmet Fatih, Selim the Grim, Suleiman the Magnificent, exists no more. It died almost a century ago replaced by democracy. If this is because one or more of these capable founders failed to put the correct foundations or if their descendants failed to do a comparably efficient maintenance is still a highly debatable issue the author does not feel qualified enough to analyze. For him a much more important issue than why an empire weakened and died is how the people that created it lived, what were their aspirations, what did they accomplished when they prospered, and what kind of legacy they left behind.
Language
English
Pages
933
Format
Kindle Edition

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