This is the biography of one of the greatest and most formidable rulers of the world. Known to the Europeans as Suleiman the Magnificent and by the Turks as the Lawgiver, he was a giant figure on the stage of Reformation Europe, while his rule during the sixteenth century was an amazingly creative and dynamic period for the Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Regarded as perhaps the greatest Turk ever born, Suleiman took the Ottoman Empire to the zenith of its military might and cultural flowering.