Queens Around the World, 1520–1620

Dror Ze’evi is Professor Emeritus of social and cultural Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. His recent books include Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East 1500-1600 (2006) and The Thirty Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 (with Benny Morris, 2019).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Sultanas of the Ottoman Empire.- 3. Mughal Queens of Hindustan.- 4. The Safavid Queens of Iran.- 5. Queens of the Jews.- 6. Queens of France.- 7. Queens of the British Isles and Ireland.- 8. The Three Phases of 16th Century Female Rule.- 9. Conclusion: How and Why did it End?.