Ottoman Women Builders MeSOC-I voluntarism and "soft power" to

voluntarism and "soft power" to at least a century before commonly assumed

11-year-old Ruben is hiding from the Nazis

including overcoming assignment anxiety

and objects of devotion

Seymour explodes many cherished myths

Ottoman Women Builders MeSOC-I voluntarism and "soft power" toExamined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman court. Captured in Russia at the age of twelve, she first served the reigning sultan's mother in Istanbul. She gradually rose through the ranks of the Ottoman harem, bore a male child to Sultan