God's Shadow

Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

By: Alan Mikhail

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Paperback | 31 August 2021

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The history of the Ottoman Empire--once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power--has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this "original and wide-ranging" (Wall Street Journal) global history, Alan Mikhail vitally recasts the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520). Drawing on previously unexamined sources, and upending prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic "rise of the West" theories, Mikhail's game-changing account radically transforms our understanding of the importance of Selim's Ottoman Empire in the annals of the modern world.

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God's Shadow is full of fine details of this cross-cultural encounter, but its most arresting aspect is Mikhail's second claim: that 'the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.' He calls his book 'a revisionist account ... demonstrating Islam's constituent role in forming some of the most fundamental aspects of the history of Europe, the Americas and the United States.' From it, he says, 'a bold new world history emerges, one that overturns shibboleths that have held sway for a millennium. Whether politicians, pundits and traditional historians like it or not, the world we inhabit is very much an Ottoman one'.... The story is always interesting.... The highest praise for a history book is that it makes you think about things in a new way.--Ian Morris - New York Times Book Review

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