“Indeed Suleiman the Magnificent, deserves to be called the only Padshah on Earth.”

—  Humayun

as quoted in Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain, 1877-1924 (1997) by Azmi Ozcan During a discussion with the Ottoman Admiral Syedi Ali Reis, the Mughal Emperor Humayun.

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