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The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
H. Erdem Cipa (Author)
9780253024282
Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2017
436 pages, 2 maps - 2 Halftones, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.644 kg
H. Erdem Cipa's monograph provides a timely investigation of the reign of Sultan Selim I and its subsequent commemoration in Ottoman historiography, not least because this particular ruler remains an important figure in the still ongoing re-evaluation of Ottoman history in Turkey.
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.
Acknowledgements Part Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite Image
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part One: The Making of a Sultan
1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne
2. Politics of Factions
Part Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey
3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler
4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler
5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained Ruler
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index