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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Çıpa, H. Erdem, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of 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.