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01-05-2016 | Editorial
Neurological disease of Şehzade Cihangir in the Ottoman history: spinal dysraphism
Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 5/2016
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Şehzade Cihangir (1531–1553 AD), the last born son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Sultan Hürrem, remains an intriguing figure in the Ottoman history (Figs. 1 and 2) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khourrem.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EmperorSuleiman.jpg). He was very well educated together with his elder brothers under supervision of his time, although he had some health problems since birth presenting as a big congenital hunchback. He wrote poems with the pen name “Zarifi” and he was also interested in calligraphy [1]. Cihangir and his brother Bayezid were circumcised with a grand ceremony on the Horse Square, when he turned 8 years old. Nevertheless, he refused to go to the sanjak because of his health problems and he lived in Istanbul all his life except for the two short periods when he left the city: the second Iran expedition in 1548 and the third Iran expedition in 1553 [1].
Fig. 1
Suleiman I (1495–1566 AD), a prominent monarch known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East as the Lawgiver (Kanuni) in the sixteenth century Europe, presided over the apex of the Ottoman Empire (from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EmperorSuleiman.jpg)
Fig. 2
Portrait of Alexandra Lisowska (1510–1558 AD), known in the West as Roxelana and in the Ottoman Empire as Sultan Hürrem, the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khourrem.jpg)
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