God's Shadow The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World

A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year

'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen Greenblatt

The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520).

Alan Mikhail centres Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus's voyages, the Protestant Reformation, and the transatlantic slave trade. Mikhail's ground-breaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life, radically reshaping our understanding of a world we thought we knew.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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. In writing God's Shadow, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources.

Zusammenfassung

A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen GreenblattThe Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule.

Vorwort

An explosive global history of Sultan Selim I and how he changed the course of global history.

Bericht

Fascinating . . . Gripping. The Times

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Mikhail, Mikhail Alan
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2021
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9780571331949
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33194-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 496
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.5 x 19.5 x 2 cm
• Themen: military history; HISTORY / Military / Medieval; Medieval History; Middle Eastern history