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Authors: Elif Shafak
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ISBN: 978-0-241-97095-9
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The chief servant of a house.
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Praise to Allah.
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In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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Infidel.
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‘Welcome, this is now your home.’
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Rice cooked in sweet milk.
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Strong wind that blows from the sea.
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Small.
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Muslim scholars who specialized in law and theology.
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Mystical, intuitive knowledge.
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Sin and vice.
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Commander of the Janissary unit in charge of catapults.
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Sultan’s elite Janissary guard, who accompanied him to mosque, out hunting, etc.
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Amount of land that can be ploughed in a day.
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Armenian Easter.
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A type of syrup widely used in the Middle East.
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Hermaphrodite.
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Rice sweetened with saffron and honey.
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A system whereby the best-looking and most intelligent Christian boys were removed from their families, converted to Islam and recruited to serve the Sultan.
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Cream.
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The utmost disgrace.
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‘I think that’s all.’
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Types of
djinn
, huge winged creatures of fire.
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Maternal grandmother.
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Apocalypse.
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Washer of the dead.
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Religious teacher, preacher.
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The one who has reached perfection.
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Halveti Shaykh Suleiman Effendi.
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The meal eaten the night before a fast.
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A sweet syrup made from grapes.
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Document given to a freed slave.
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Evil spirit.
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True.
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Old woman, granny.
