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God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
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ISBN-13:
9781324091028
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.08.2021
Seiten:
512
Autor:
Alan Mikhail
Gewicht:
422 g
Format:
208x135x31 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his prize-winning books on the history of the Middle East.
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.