Making of Selim

Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World

von H Erdem Cipa

442 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• ISBN: 9780253024237
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2017
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press