Tag Archives: Selim II The Sot

traveling man

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dave

One day in the Moslem year 756, or 1355 A.D. , a well known Moroccan theologian began to dictate his memoirs. Better known as Ibn Battuta, he was fifty-one, a scholar and a well respected judge, but principally known as … Continue reading →

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in and around the seraglio

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

….Turkey is putting up good economic numbers, and flourishing without the militarily imposed corruption that the Kemalist guarantors of secularism wallowed in as the price of preserving modern Turkey. Tiresome though Turkey’s anti-Israel posturing and pandering to the Arabs is, … Continue reading →

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