Author

Publication

2017 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

110,500 words, Guess

Page Count

442 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780253024237
  • ISBN-100253024234
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016037588
  • OCLC Control Number949913232
  • Better World Books9780253024237
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDR504.C56 2017
  • LCCDR504 .C56 2017

Description

The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, Selim promoted a politicized Sunni Ottoman identity against the Shiite Safavids of Iran, thus shaping the early modern Middle East. Analyzing a wide array of sources in Ottoman-Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, H. Erdem Cipa offers a fascinating revisionist reading of Selim's rise to power and the subsequent reworking and mythologizing of his persona in 16th- and 17th-century Ottoman historiography. In death, Selim continued to serve the empire, becoming represented in ways that reinforced an idealized image of Muslim sovereignty in the early modern Eurasian world.

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Other Editions

  • Making of SelimIndiana University Press2017

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