Renaissance emir
Subtitle: a Druze warlord at the Court of the Medici
By: T.J. Gorton
Edition: First paperback edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781566569637
Subjects: East and West; Princes; Travel; Relations; Christianity; Renaissance; Druzes; Islam; Biography; History
Notes: "Originally published in the Unitd Kingdom by Quartet Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Sources; title: Note on transliteration, pronunciation and translation; title: Prince of the Druze; title: The sect where every man is a prince; title: Fakhr ad-Din's world : the Levant in 1600; title: Druze and Medici; title: Storm clouds gather; title: Tuscany; title: Carnival in Florence; title: Dreams of Jerusalem; title: Sicily and Naples; title: Pinnacle; title: Endgame; title: Legacy; title: Postscript: Note on al-Khalidi's Life of Fakhr ad-din.