The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and

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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

The fascinating story of Queen Elizabethâ€™s secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps

We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence.

The Sultan and the Queen tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunesâ€”and reveals how Elizabethâ€™s fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by Englandâ€™s first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.

Country	USA
Author	Jerry Brotton
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780698191631
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	354
PublicationDate	2016-09-20
Publisher	Penguin Books
ReleaseDate	2016-09-20
Studio	Penguin Books

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

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