{"product_id":"the-sultan-and-the-queen-the-untold-story-of-elizabeth-and-islam-9780143110620","title":"The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in Twelve Maps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas, but when Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen, it was just a tiny and rebellious Protestant island on the fringes of Europe, confronting the combined power of the papacy and of Catholic Spain. Broke and under siege, the young queen sought to build new alliances with the great powers of the Muslim world. She sent an emissary to the Shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Murad III, with whom she shared a lively correspondence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sultan and the Queen\u003c\/i\u003e tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes--and reveals how Elizabeth's fruitful alignment with the Islamic world, financed by England's first joint stock companies, paved the way for its transformation into a global commercial empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143110620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Jerry Brotton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049403908277,"sku":"9780143110620","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6506aff9-56b3-48ef-bb77-f294ab9cbb4f.jpg?v=1689689218","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sultan-and-the-queen-the-untold-story-of-elizabeth-and-islam-9780143110620","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}