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Sultan Razia (Raziyyat-Ud-Dunya Wa Ud-Din, r. 1236-1240) was one of the few women rulers in the Indian subcontinent and the first and only female Sultan of Delhi. Despite facing Herculean challenges...

From MS Hazine 1523, folio 138a, this miniature depicts Sultan Murad II (1421-1444 and 1446-1451 CE) at archery practice. (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)

The Ottoman Empire's Sultan Abdul Hamid II (r. 1878-1909 CE) going to the Friday Prayer (Friday Procession).

The mausoleum-madrasa-maristan complex of Qalawun at Bayn al-Qasrayn (al-Muizz street), Cairo.

The mausoleum of Qalawun. For a time, Mamluk sultans after him received their coronation here.

Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with Kaya Şahin about his new book Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman, published by Oxford University...

Sultan Suleiman Marries Hurrem | Magnificent Century Click to watch full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cooAiT3JY8k The golden years of the Ottoman Empire come to life in a television...

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman...

The Tughlaq dynasty (also spelt Tughluq), ruled the Delhi sultanate from 1320 to 1413. Followed by the Khalji dynasty and preceded by the Sayyids, the Tughlaq dynasty formed an important period in the history and culture of the...

The Four Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) were fought between the British East India Company (EIC) and the state of Mysore. Haidar Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore", were relentless foes to British expansion in...