A Life In Pursuit Of The Red Apple - Fatih Sultan Mehmed

“Journey Towards the Burning Ember Within Fa- tih” This book is filled with boats passing through, filled with scholars. It identifies the golden rings that intertwine geographies like a necklace. It sets sail towards a vast horizon that combines the pas- sion for maps with inner world technology. For the author, the substance of Fatih and his conquests is as important, perhaps even more so, than what they express. What was this young Sultan looking for in the legendary library of the Byzantine Emper- or? And why did he have the biography of Plutarch, the oracle of the Delphi temple, transcribed? What void did he expect the wisdom in the dozens of commentaries on Fusus al-Hikam to fill? We don’t know enough about these. What we do know is that there is a fire burning within him. If this book can bring the reader even one step closer to that ember, it will have largely fulfilled its duty.