God's Shadow
The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
Alan Mikhail
- The
- Ottoman
- Empire
- was
- a
- hub
- of
- flourishing
- intellectual
- fervor,
- geopolitical
- power,
- and
- enlightened
- pluralistic
- rule.
- At
- the
- helm
- of
- its
- ascent
- was
- the
- omnipotent
- Sultan
- Selim
- I
- (1470-1520),
- who,
- with
- the
- aid
- of
- his
- extraordinarily
- gifted
- mother,
- Gülbahar,
- hugely
- expanded
- the
- empire,
- propelling
- it
- onto
- the
- world
- stage.
- Aware
- of
- centuries
- of
- European
- suppression
- of
- Islamic
- history,
Alan
- Mikhail
- centers
- Selim's
- Ottoman
- Empire
- and
- Islam
- as
- the
- very
- pivots
- of
- global
- history,
- redefining
- such
- world-changing
- events
- as
- Christopher
- Columbus's
- voyages
- -
- which
- originated,
- in
- fact,
- as
- a
- Catholic
- jihad
- that
- would
- come
- to
- view
- Native
- Americans
- as
- somehow
- "Moorish"
- -
- the
- Protestant
- Reformation,
- the
- transatlantic
- slave
- trade,
- and
- the
- dramatic
- Ottoman
- seizure
- of
- the
- Middle
- East
- and
- North
- Africa.
- Drawing
- on
- previously
- unexamined
- sources
- and
- written
- in
- gripping
- detail,
Mikhail's
- groundbreaking
- account
- vividly
- recaptures
- Selim's
- life
- and
- world.
- An
- historical
- masterwork,
- God's
- Shadow
- radically
- reshapes
- our
- understanding
- of
- a
- world
- we
- thought
- we
- knew.
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
- previous
- three
- prize-winning
- books
- on
- the
- history
- of
- Middle East.
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