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The Architect's Apprentice

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by Elif Shafak


  * ‘Welcome, this is now your home.’

  * Rice cooked in sweet milk.

  * Strong wind that blows from the sea.

  * Small.

  * Muslim scholars who specialized in law and theology.

  * Mystical, intuitive knowledge.

  † Sin and vice.

  * Commander of the Janissary unit in charge of catapults.

  * Sultan’s elite Janissary guard, who accompanied him to mosque, out hunting, etc.

  * Amount of land that can be ploughed in a day.

  * Armenian Easter.

  * A type of syrup widely used in the Middle East.

  * Hermaphrodite.

  * Rice sweetened with saffron and honey.

  * 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.

  * Cream.

  * The utmost disgrace.

  * ‘I think that’s all.’

  * Types of djinn, huge winged creatures of fire.

  * Maternal grandmother.

  * Apocalypse.

  * Washer of the dead.

  * Religious teacher, preacher.

  * The one who has reached perfection.

  * Halveti Shaykh Suleiman Effendi.

  * The meal eaten the night before a fast.

  * A sweet syrup made from grapes.

  * Document given to a freed slave.

  * Evil spirit.

  * True.

  * Old woman, granny.

 

 

 


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