Suleiman the Magnificent (part 1): Suleiman the Magnificent

In 1520, a twenty-five-year-old named Suleiman became the tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was the only surviving son of Selim the Grim, the most feared conqueror of the age, so the crown passed to him without the usual war between brothers and without the strangling of rivals that so often opened an Ottoman reign. He inherited a state that spanned three continents, the richest and most powerful of its day, and with it the guardianship of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Isla...