THE ENDERUN SCHOOL The Palace School of the Ottoman Empire (The Children of Topkapı Palace) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798266539419)

An excuse is but an ornate garment draped over helplessness.
No matter the circumstances, a hero does not seek excuses - he forges solutions.
The fire of love burning within a hero's heart is the unfading power that lifts him from the deepest pits and labyrinths.
In no age of history have heroes, or love itself, ever vanished from the earth.

In this book:
A window opens onto Constantinople at the dawn of the 1600s.
From the unmatched Enderun School of the Topkapı Palace, a torch is lit to illuminate the social, religious, and educational life of the era.
Love, justice, history, and mythology are revealed in an intellectual style.
Self-discipline, Sufism, and spiritual discovery are reflected through the lenses of the heavenly religions.

East and West are intertwined through the eyes of William Shakespeare, the man of letters of his age, and Imam-i Rabbani, the great scholar of the time.
Love of nature and animals, the reading of the language of creation, mysticism and the belief in Divine Unity are expressed in a universal tongue.

This work speaks with the feelings of lovers who live love and who suffer its sorrows.
From the ink of the pupils arise themes of friendship, camaraderie, and loyalty.

Through the eyes of the children of Topkapı Palace, Fikret Erkan offers, in a literary manner, a lesson of life: building the future with the experience and wisdom of the past.