The making of Selim : succession, legitimacy, and memory in the early modern Ottoman world /
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 Shiit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 424 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253024237 0253024234 9780253024282 0253024285 |