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Many people in history were known as “the great,” but very few were called, “the magnificent.” Yet ironically, the greatest sultan of the Ottoman Empire is better remembered by Jews than he is by Moslems. From his siege on Vienna to his tolerance for Jews, Rabbi Wein explains the magnificence of this out-of-the box Moslem conqueror.

• Was his mother Jewish?
• His legacy to Jerusalem: its surrounding walls
• Christian wife + Jewish doctor = tolerant Moslem
• the “almosts” of history – how things might have been