Making of Selim

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

AvH. Erdem Cipa

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:644 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:436
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253024282

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H. Erdem Cipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Yavuz'un Kavgası: I. Selim'in Saltanat Mücadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvacı) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.

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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.(English Historical Review)

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AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart One: The Making of a Sultan1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne2. Politics of FactionsPart Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite ImagePart Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained RulerConclusionBibliographyIndex