{"id":694627,"date":"2020-08-28T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=694627"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:39:51","slug":"gods-shadow-allahin-golgesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2020\/08\/28\/gods-shadow-allahin-golgesi\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Shadow &#8211; Allah&#8217;\u0131n G\u00f6lgesi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"263\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gods-shadow-allahin-golgesi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gods-shadow-allahin-golgesi.png 263w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gods-shadow-allahin-golgesi-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>God&#8217;s Shadow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published by Liveright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by\u00a0Alan Mikhail\u00a0(Author, Yale University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cA stunning work of global history. . . . Alan Mikhail offers a bold and thoroughly convincing new way to think about the origins of the modern world. . . . A tour de force.\u201d \u2014Greg Grandin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans, with extraordinary military dominance and unparalleled monopolies over trade routes, controlled more territory and ruled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cA stunning work of global history. . . . Alan Mikhail offers a bold and thoroughly convincing new way to think about the origins of the modern world. . . . A tour de force.\u201d \u2014Greg Grandin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans, with extraordinary military dominance and unparalleled monopolies over trade routes, controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, despite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire\u2019s history has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and even suppressed in the West. Now Alan Mikhail presents a vitally needed recasting of Ottoman history, retelling the story of the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470\u20131520).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born to a concubine, and the fourth of his sultan father\u2019s ten sons, Selim was never meant to inherit the throne. With personal charisma and military prowess\u2014as well as the guidance of his remarkably gifted mother, G\u00fclbahar\u2014Selim claimed power over the empire in 1512 and, through ruthless ambition, nearly tripled the territory under Ottoman control, building a governing structure that lasted into the twentieth century. At the same time, Selim\u2014known by his subjects as \u201cGod\u2019s Shadow on Earth\u201d\u2014fostered religious diversity, welcoming Jews among other minority populations into the empire; encouraged learning and philosophy; and penned his own verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on previously unexamined sources from multiple languages, and with original maps and stunning illustrations, Mikhail\u2019s game-changing account \u201cchallenges readers to recalibrate their sense of history\u201d (Leslie Peirce), adroitly using Selim\u2019s life to upend prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic \u201crise of the West\u201d theories that have held sway for decades. Whether recasting Christopher Columbus\u2019s voyages to the \u201cAmericas\u201d as a bumbling attempt to slay Muslims or showing how the Ottomans allowed slaves to become the elite of society while Christian states at the very same time waged the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade,&nbsp;<em>God\u2019s Shadow<\/em>&nbsp;radically reshapes our understanding of the importance of Selim\u2019s Ottoman Empire in the history of the modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A M<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan Mikhail<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A leading historian of his generation,&nbsp;<strong>Alan Mikhail<\/strong>, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has&nbsp;reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of the Middle East. In writing&nbsp;<em>God\u2019s Shadow<\/em>, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources. He lives in New York and New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s Shadow Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World Published by Liveright by\u00a0Alan Mikhail\u00a0(Author, Yale University) \u201cA stunning work of global history. . . . Alan Mikhail offers a bold and thoroughly convincing new way to think about the origins of the modern world. . . . 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