{"product_id":"9780253024350","title":"The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120344350960,"sku":"9780253024350","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253024350_p0.jpg?v=1763680704","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253024350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}