The Making of Selim : Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World /

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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 Shii...

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Main Author: Çıpa, H. Erdem, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Selim > I, > Sultan of the Turks, > 1470-1520.
HISTORY > Middle East > Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Empire ottoman > Histoire > 1512-1520 (Selim Ier)
Turkey.
Turkey > History > Selim I, 1512-1520.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (436 pages).
ISBN:9780253024350

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