The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2017
277 pages
978-0-253-02435-0 (ISBN)
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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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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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English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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2 maps - 2 Halftones, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-253-02435-0 (9780253024350)
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The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
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The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
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02/2017
Indiana University Press
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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 Kavgasi: I. Selim'in Saltanat Muecadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvaci) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.
Content
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part One: The Making of a Sultan
1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne
2. Politics of Factions
Part Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite Image
Part Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey
3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler
4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler
5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained Ruler
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part One: The Making of a Sultan
1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne
2. Politics of Factions
Part Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite Image
Part Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey
3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler
4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler
5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained Ruler
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
