#suleiman i

[royal-confessions]

“one of my favorite monarch and consort pairings is definitely sultan suleiman i and haseki hurrem sultan. the fact that he broke so many rules and traditions (eg. having more than one son with her, raising her status from concubine to a sultan, letting her, a woman, participate in some state affairs) for her is so🥹 i was genuinely sad for him when i learned that he loved her so much, he didn’t take another woman after her death (when he really could, he was the sultan after all) and lived the rest of his life heartbroken. ALSO!! the letters they wrote to each other (especially the poems!!) are so sweet and dreamy. it sounds crazy, but it’s like i felt their love for each other when reading those, like it transcended death and time.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[redxluna]

Suleiman & Hürrem // “Expressing my Grief, written by the Qianlong Emperor after the death of Empress Xiaoxian

[tianmicons]

[smashorpassgilf]

Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent from the show "Magnificent Century"

[gael-garcia]

Divine Intervention (2002, Elia Suleiman) يد إلهية

[iliothermia]

I started to color him and it's game over y'all

I can't survive this

[mihrunnisasultans]

Look, look! Blood is dripping from this dome! Even rivers and oceans cannot clean your hands from all the blood.

Happy (belated) birthday Plami! @mc-critical

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent Century + Parallels: Ibrahim Pasha & Hürrem Sultan

[the-divine-machine]

Some userboxes I made because why not?

[beyoursunset]

Brazilian Rejanis being the cutest thing you'll see today.

[anastasiasultana]

MERYEM UZURLI AS HÜRREM SULTAN

don't you think i know exactly where i stand? this world is forcing me to hold your hand

[royal-confessions]

“I kinda miss when monarchs had nicknames like Suleyman de Magnificent, Alfonso X the Wise or Peter the Cruel” - Submitted by Anonymous

[chicago-geniza]

very high comedy and high cultural commentary to have a prototypically white midwestern dj host a show on sephardic music and force her to butcher spanish, arabic, and jewish names, each in unique, distinctly over-enunciated-to-the-point-of-racist-caricature ways, while also VERY CLEARLY doing her best to use the "right accent." like they put this poor NPR-brained boomer woman in radio purgatory. chef's kiss

[tianmicons]

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

selim only being responsible for two pregnancies and both of those by the same woman..... would not typically be a high bar but he is a sehzade in magnificent century and as a sehzade in magnificent century that is a truly impressive feat

[gael-garcia]

IT MUST BE HEAVEN (2019), dir. Elia Suleiman

"What the younger generation are doing today, I’m envious of. The people you see in the last scene are people I witnessed myself during the shooting. Something synchronized between the emotion I was building inside of me, and then confronting them. I had not met those people. Other people on the shoot told me Haifa has the most beautiful bars. We went on a tour and I got so slammed. At 3am, at the end of the night, the last bar was a gay and lesbian bar. I kept on drinking and watching. And I thought, 'This is the last scene of the film, for sure.' It was great. It was completely in sync with my feeling and sentiment. It came to me like a destined scene." —Elia Suleiman