Mikhail’s agents and admirers have ensured that he has been afforded ample opportunity to publicize summaries of his book and its arguments after it came out. This is not entirely surprising given the fact that, as a “trade” book, God’s Shadow (henceforth cited as GS) has been the object of an effective publicity campaign mounted by the author, his agent, and their diligent circle. It has rapidly been met with popular acclaim in the press, while other recent scholarly studies of Selim by young scholars have not been accorded any such attention. Entitled God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright, 2020), the book also modestly claims that it is an “innovative, even revolutionary” (p. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Ī historian from Yale University, Alan Mikhail, has recently published a popular biography of the Ottoman Sultan Selim (r. Illustration from “Exposition on the Prophet Ezra”, a manuscript Ottoman history by Felix da Costa (1687). CORNELL FLEISCHER 1, CEMAL KAFADAR 2 and SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM 3ġUniversity of Chicago, 2Harvard University, 3University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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