God's Shadow

Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

von Alan Mikhail

512 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The history of the Ottoman Empire-once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power-has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this "original and wide-ranging" (Wall Street Journal) global history, Alan Mikhail vitally recasts the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520). Drawing on previously unexamined sources, and upending prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic "rise of the West" theories, Mikhail's game-changing account radically transforms our understanding of the importance of Selim's Ottoman Empire in the annals of the modern world.

• ISBN: 9781324091028
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2021
• Größe: 208 x 135 mm
• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation