The Reign of the Favored Women
By: Ann Chamberlin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Safiye, consort of Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1550-1605 -- Fiction.; Mohammed III, Sultan of the Turks, d. 1603 -- Fiction.; Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1546-1595 -- Fiction.; Women -- Turkey -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Fiction.; Italians -- Turkey -- Fiction.; Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683 -- Fiction.
Description: A historical novel on a power struggle between two women in the harem of Sultan Murad of Turkey. They are Safiye, mother of the sultan's only son, and Nur Banu, the sultan's mother and official head of the harem. Each has her own political agenda and on the outcome of the conflict depends the future of the Ottoman Empire. By the author of The Sultan's Daughter.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."