In Constantinople, empires are about to collide, lovers are about to depart, and the world is about to change for ever. Beyazit Akman’s epic, 1453:...

The Saljūqnāma, very probably penned between 1177 and 1186 by Zahīr al-Dīn Nīshāpūri, is one of the main sources of the political, social an cultur...