Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman I became sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1520 and reigned for forty-six years, the longest of any sultan. In the West he was called the Magnificent; in Turkey he is called Kanuni, the Lawgiver, for his work bringing the empire's laws into order. Early in his reign he took Belgrade and the island of Rhodes, and in 1526 he crushed the Hungarian army at the battle of Mohács. In 1529 he besieged Vienna but had to withdraw. His fleets, led by Hayreddin Barbarossa, controlled much of the Mediterranean, and his armies took Baghdad. He supported poets and wrote poetry himself, and his chief architect, Mimar Sinan, built the great Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. He married Hürrem, also known as Roxelana, who had come to his palace as a captive; she became highly influential. Rivalries over the succession led him to order the deaths of two of his own sons. He died in 1566 during a siege in Hungary.

Faith: A Sunni Muslim sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Source: Wikipedia