TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikhail, Alan
TI  -  God's Shadow: : The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
SN  - 9780571331918
U1  -  956.101 
PY  - 0000///June 32021///
CY  - United Kngdom
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  -  Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
N2  - 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
ER  -