God's Shadow
Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Published on 18. August 2020
512 pages
978-1-63149-240-2 (ISBN)
Description
An "arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.
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.More details
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Alan Mikhail is the Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of six books that have been translated into ten languages.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Part One Prince (1470-87)
- 1. Perfume of the World
- 2. Empire Boys
- 3. An Ottoman Abroad
- Part Two Governor (1487-1500)
- 4. Learning the Family Business
- 5. Power at the Edge
- Part Three The Ottoman (1492)
- 6. Columbus and Islam
- 7. Columbus's Crusade
- 8. New World Islam
- 9. Christian Jihad
- 10. The Taino-Muslims of Hispaniola
- 11. Finding Ottoman Jerusalem
- Part Four Enemies Near and Far (1500-12)
- 12. Heresy from the East
- 13. Enemies Everywhere
- 14. Summer in Crimea
- 15. Bound for Istanbul
- 16. One and Only Sultan
- Part Five Selim's World Wars (1512-18)
- 17. "Their Abode Is Hell"
- 18. Fraternal Empires
- 19. Conquering the Navel
- 20. Conquering the World
- Part Six Final Frontiers (1518-20)
- 21. Empire Everywhere
- 22. Fulcrum of the Atlantic
- 23. Eternity
- Part Seven Descendants (After 1520)
- 24. Selim's Reformations
- 25. American Selim
- Coda: Shadows Over Turkey
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology: Selim and his World
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Alan Mikhail
- Copyright
