Excerpt from In the Shadow of Islam Directly in front Of her lay Stamboul, besprinkled with minarets, striving to reach Allah's blue throne. Above the city, as above the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, a multitude of sea gulls were flying, executing in the air, with astonishing rapidity, every possible graceful movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.