My Name Is Red
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My Name Is Red is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of 1591, established Pamuk's inte
First edition (Turkish)
Murad III
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Murad III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595.
My Name Is Red
…the novel in 2008. Several of the major characters in the novel belong to the same workshop of miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Murad III. The first chapter of the novel ("I am a corpse") is narrated by one of the workshop's illuminators (Elegant Effendi) who has just been murdered. In…
Contemporary Ottoman portrait of Murad III by Seyyid Lokman, 1583. Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Sultan Murad III and his entourage, receiving the Persian ambassador Maksud in 1580. Sehinsahname (1592)
Commander Osman Pasha (left) conferring with Murad III (right). Şeca'atname (1598)
A later European depiction, attributed to a Spanish artist, 17th century