Our Golden History: Fall of Constantinople

Sultan Mehmed I1, the 19-year-old ruler of the Ottoman Empire, had but one dream.

Conquer Constantinople - the famous city of antiquity and the capital of the Byzantine Roman Empire.

After all, when Islam meant just one city, and the Muslims were merely a thousand men strong, besieged by all of Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) made the grandiose prediction that Muslims would one day capture the capitals of the two superpowers of the day - the Persian Sassanid Empire and the Byzantine Roman Empire. Within the next forty years the Sassanid Empire would collapse to the Muslims, but 800 years later, the Romans were still holding out.

This book details the events before and during the siege of Constantinople during the spring of 1453 AD. With a massive army, Sultan Mehmed Il fought an epic contest over land and sea as a small band of Roman defenders held out for two months against the might of the Ottoman war machine, and succeeded in foiling most of his well laid plans. It would take divine inspiration, and some brilliant innovative strategies from the young Sultan, before Constantinople would fall to the Muslims, fulfilling the prophecy.

"Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will he be, and what a wonderful army will that army be."

• Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
• soft cover
• ages 8yrs +
  191 pgs