| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages) |
| Contents |
The making of a sultan -- The politics of succession : Selim's path to the throne -- Politics of factions -- The creation of Selim's composite image -- Introduction : a historiographical survey -- Selim, the legitimate ruler -- Selim, the idealized ruler -- Selim, the divinely ordained ruler |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2017) |
| Subject |
Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520.
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| SUBJECT |
Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520 fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History -- Selim I, 1512-1520.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00003134
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| Subject |
Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016050318 |
| ISBN |
9780253024350 |
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0253024358 |
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0253024285 |
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9780253024282 |
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