God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World -- Alan Mikhail, Paperback

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.

Author: Alan Mikhail
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/31/2021
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.56w x 1.32d
ISBN: 9781324091028