TY - BOOK ID - 80838319 TI - The making of Selim PY - 2017 SN - 9780253024350 0253024358 9780253024237 0253024285 9780253024282 PB - Bloomington DB - UniCat KW - Selim KW - Salīm KW - Selimus KW - Yavuz Sultan Selim, KW - سليم KW - Turkey KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80838319 AB - 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. ER -