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The tale was also classified as type 707, thus related to Russian tale "Tsar Saltan". [59] In a tale collected by Chudjakov with the title Der weise Iwan ("The Wise Ivan"), Ivan Tsarevich, the son of a tsar, pays a visit to a king and his three daughters. He listens to their conversation: the elder sister promises to weave trousers and shirts ...
Tale of the Damsel Torfat al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun al-Rashid To this tale Burton added an extensive footnote about circumcision. Women's Wiles Calcutta edition (196–200) Nur al-Din Ali of Damascus and the Damsel Sitt al-Milah Breslau (958–965) Tale of King Ins bin Kays and His Daughter with the Son of King Al-'Abbas Breslau (966–979)
In one tale, "The Seven Viziers" (also known as "Craft and Malice of Women or The Tale of the King, His Son, His Concubine and the Seven Wazirs"), a courtesan accuses a king's son of having assaulted her, when in reality she had failed to seduce him (inspired by the Qur'anic/Biblical story of Yusuf/Joseph).
Abdulaziz (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز, romanized: ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; Turkish: Abdülaziz; 8 February 1830 – 4 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. [1]
In 1914, [5] Abdülhalim along with other princes, Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri, son of Sultan Abdul Hamid, Şehzade Osman Fuad, son of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, were sent to the Potsdam Military Academy as the guests of Kaiser Wilhelm II, where Şehzade Ömer Faruk, the son of Abdulmejid II, later joined them.
Abdul Abulbul Amir" is the most common name for a music-hall song written in 1877 (during the Russo-Turkish War) under the title "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" by Irish songwriter Percy French, and subsequently altered and popularized by a variety of other writers and performers.
It depicted a rebellion against a tyrannical ruler, and the actual ruler of Turkey at that time, Sultan Abdul Hamid II was so upset by it that he had the playwright suspended from his government job. Returning to the foreign affairs service, he was appointed in 1881 to Poti , Georgia , in 1882 to Volos , Greece and in 1883 to Bombay , India . [ 2 ]
Otto Witte's story was adapted by Harry Turtledove for his novel Every Inch a King (2005), which puts it in a high fantasy setting. Witte's story bears a strong resemblance to the best-selling adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), of which the first film adaptation was released in 1913.