God's Shadow
An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world. 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.
512 pages, 8 editions
English edition · First published 2020 by W. W. Norton · ISBN 9781631492402
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Editions
8 editions
English
- God's Shadow · W. W. Norton · 2020 · ISBN 9781631492402 This page
- God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World · Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9781665115650
- God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World · Faber & Faber · 2021 · ISBN 9780571331949
- God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World · Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9781665115667
- God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World · Faber & Faber · 2020 · ISBN 9780571331925
- God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World · Liveright Publishing Corporation · 2020 · ISBN 9781631492396
- God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World · HighBridge Audio · 2020 · ISBN 9781696600385
- God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World · Faber & Faber · 2020 · ISBN 9780571331918
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