02611cam a22003015i 4500 64276 64276 20240530110723.0 180328s20172017ua bcf g b 001 0beng c 9789774168437 EG-CaGPL EG-CaGPL eng tur 21 726.50963 / A E Anne Fitzgerald, Mary author. Ethiopia : the living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom / Mary Anne Fitzgerald, Philip Marsden ; Edited by Carolyn Ludwing, Morris Jackson :Cairo The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. 523 p. : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Churches Buildings Ethiopia. qrmak Marsden, Philip author Ludwing, Carolyn Editor Jackson,Morris Editor ddc BK "Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph--but not as sultan--by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdulmecid; in 1924 Abdulmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart."-- In English; translated from the original Turkish. Biographies. lcgft 0 ibc pccadap 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg 0 0 0 0 CAI CAI MAIN-LIBRARY 2018-04-05 0 726.50963 / A E 164436 2018-04-05 00:00:00 2018-04-05 BK