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The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
H. Erdem Cipa
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Paperback. Num Pages: 442 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; 3JB; 3JD; HBAH; HBJF1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253024282
SKU
V9780253024282
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About H. Erdem Cipa
H. Erdem Cipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Yavuz'un Kavgas: I. Selim'in Saltanat Mucadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvac) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.
Reviews for The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
H. Erdem Cipa's monograph provides a timely investigation of the reign of Sultan Selim I and its subsequent commemoration in Ottoman historiography, not least because this particular ruler remains an important figure in the still ongoing re-evaluation of Ottoman history in Turkey.
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