John Freely

John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. He teaches physics at Bosphorous University in Istanbul. He has written more than forty books, including The Lost Messiah, The Grand Turk, and Aladdin's Lamp.

John Freely's Titles

Before Galileo The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

Before Galileo

Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession...


Grand Turk Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire

The Grand Turk

Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as 'the Conqueror' and to much of Europe as 'the Terror of the World,' was once Europe's most feared...