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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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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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.