The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- H. Erdem Cipa
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Historiography
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780253024237
- ISBN-10
- 0253024234
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
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ISBN: 0253024234
Author: Cipa, H. Erdem
Condition: New
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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